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Martin van Staden: “Without liberalism’s emphasis on limited government, the rule of law is reduced to rule by law – a system where laws exist but serve the ruler’s interests rather than themselves being the source of the ruler’s authority.” https://t.co/waP8aqmRq7
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The rise of populist authoritarianism on the right around the world unsurprisingly comes alongside an agenda to characterise liberalism’s achievements as either overstated or harmful,
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Steven Boykey Sidley: “For those teachers terrified of these coming changes, but resigned to the imminent primacy of AI tutors, there is this comfort – no more lesson plans, no more grading, no more one-size-fits-all.” https://t.co/PMLvAWw54M
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On a recent episode of the New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast, I was startled to hear about an “AI-first” school that has used AI
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Ricardo Teixeira: “There is little evidence of a clear-eyed assessment of operational shortcomings or a strategy to protect troops in future missions.” https://t.co/R6TkE1ktOF
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Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga’s responses to recent parliamentary questions on the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) deployment in the Democratic
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Paul Hoffman: “The President can and should summon the necessary political will to secure the adoption of the Breytenbach bills.” https://t.co/dFLonF8EpJ
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In his most recent weekly newsletter dated 8 September 2025, the President, Cyril Ramaphosa, reflects on the final report of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council
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Jonathan Katzenellenbogen: “The ANC just can’t admit to the root causes of the problem, because these go to the heart of its beliefs and vested interests.” https://t.co/5TkyV8Fp5r
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The South African economy is going through a torrid time and business confidence is sliding away. An increasing number of multinational companies are either closing
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Greg Mills and Ray Hartley: “While Israel merits its share of scrutiny (and blame) for the passage of war and peace in the Middle East, the scale and bullying nature of the protests say at least as much about Spain and Europe as it does about Israel.” https://t.co/kfKbh0Q3w4
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A combined 184 riders from 23 teams with 575 technical staff, competing in 21 stages over a route of 3,186km, shepherded by more than 3,000
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Hassen Lorgat: “It appears that Palestinians who pursue non-violent resistance are outlawed as much as those who advocate for armed resistance.” https://t.co/0lviGjLra8
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In a valuable input, I fear Sara has gon(e) too far in her piece, Newell and the SABC: Silencing dissent, weakening journalism. Her arguments in favour
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Ivo Vegter: “If sanctions are aimed at combating corruption, as they are in part with the proposed sanctions against South Africa, this courts irony: only the corrupt are able to circumvent sanctions, while the law-abiding are punished.” https://t.co/8rqI19m08l
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Calls have been growing for the imposition of sanctions against South Africa, or its leaders, to force them to mend their ways. They won’t. Since
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Terence Corrigan: “Kill the economy to resurrect it. It is the hope that reality can be ignored, and that at some indeterminate future point, all will come together in a blaze of light and revelation − perhaps when the final incantation is chanted....” https://t.co/o5ZPzkT4ye
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The blend of folk beliefs and pop culture exercises a strong pull on all modern cultures. There is something particularly titillating and forbidding about monsters
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Robert King: “Beyond a single town, a constellation of Free Municipalities could federate to take on larger responsibilities − [bypassing] the threat of third-wave BEE, coordinating infrastructure, even ... engaging with foreign governments.” https://t.co/vwabkG4YC8
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Local government in South Africa is in ruins. From sprawling metros to forgotten dorpies, service delivery is either laughably incompetent or entirely absent. The worst
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Hermann Pretorius: “The ANC, having squandered the goodwill that once brought it 70% of the vote, now insists on the policies that guaranteed its fall to 30%.” https://t.co/FGr3g4URkz
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Political parties that dominate a society for decades tend to assume their grip will last indefinitely. Yet history shows how quickly power can crumble. In
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Reuben Coetzer: “The real question before us is not about feeder zones or admission criteria (but) ... about (whether) parents and communities retain the overriding say in how their children are educated, or ...politicians and bureaucrats...?” https://t.co/AtmuQi2MUn
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In the light of the Department of Basic Education’s proposed BELA regulations, ordinary South Africans are once again confronted with a stark choice: do we
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Sindile Vabaza: “What is clear is that whatever the supposed intentions, the policy environment in this country serves a political, big business (through regulations that stifle start-ups and competition) and labour aristocracy.” https://t.co/2fhAWLzr6x
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In his 1985 comic book, How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn’t, American tax resistance advocate Irwin Schiff tells the story of a primitive
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Chris Crozier: “(A) solution – an elegantly simple, economically powerful, and environmentally restorative solution – lies not in some futuristic technology, but in a past initiative the Zuma government of 2017 carelessly and illegally abandoned.” https://t.co/0w6UP3jtDJ
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Drive past almost any informal settlement, or any South African neighbourhood on the urban fringe, and you will most likely encounter a grim sight: mounds
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