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Vaccination, ethics and freedom of choice
Earlier this month, News24 asked me to contribute to a piece on whether vaccine mandates were ethically defensible. Here are...
PODCAST: Digital Taxes and Digital Rights in Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to strain most African economies. As more African countries seek to widen their tax base,...
South Africa: Confronting racism and class conflict
By Andile Zulu We cannot have a conversation about rethinking political consciousness in South Africa without addressing the race...
South Africa: The case for a new political consciousness
By Andile Zulu Last week the true nature of South Africa’s post-apartheid order was unveiled. Not through a righteous...
South Africa Unrest: Counting the costs
As calm is slowly returning to the streets of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces of South Africa, businesses and citizens...
South Africa Unrest: Why Zimbabwe is catching a cold
By Margaret Chinowaita From the time a baby is born in Zimbabwe, most of the goods they will consume...
On Zille’s #StayWoke: Go Broke
Helen Zille’s new book, #StayWoke: Go Broke aims to tell us why “South Africa won’t survive America’s Culture Wars”....
Media integrity in covering South Africa’s lockdown protests
Nobody will be surprised to read that journalism leans toward sensationalism in terms of topics chosen for coverage, how...
South African alcohol bans under Covid-19 lockdown
Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa’s President) reinstated a ban on the sale of alcohol at both restaurants and retail outlets...
Storming the Capitol – Trump’s exit won’t fix much
The scenes from Washington on Wednesday (6th January 2020), where the process confirming Biden’s status as President-Elect was disrupted...
“Classical Liberalism” and South Africa’s Institute of Race Relations
Liberalism has always meant different things to different people. I tried to describe what its fundamental principles are, for...
The metamorphosis of South Africa’s Democratic Alliance
I realise that most people are focusing on today’s election in the United States (the lizards will win, no...