The postponement of the Budget was, on balance, a positive sign. It suggests a moderate degree of pragmatism among the major players that is surprising, given how radically different the two largest coalition parties are.
Last week’s postponement of the finance minister’s budget speech, which also delayed the tabling of the Budget (the 2025 Appropriations Bill) in Parliament, brought into sharp focus just how much the ANC’s loss of its overall majority in Parliament has changed how the executive is required to function. (more…)
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12 February 2025
On the alarmist, misleading, and anti-constitutional claims made by critics of the Expropriation Act
It should be possible for citizens with radically different political views to have constructive discussions about the merits of the […]
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21 January 2025
Why (almost) everything I learnt on social media about the Buffelsfontein tragedy turned out to be wrong
The SAPS’ operation Vala Umgodi which led to more than a 100 miners starving to death in shaft 10 and […]
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9 October 2024
Court cases against UCT and Maties are emblematic of the ‘Mpofu-fication’ of SA universities
Even when the legal arguments in such lawfare cases are weak or absurd, the litigation itself can be of value […]
Quote of the week
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am your God – Leviticus 19:33-34.
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit – Ephesians 2:19-22.
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