It is difficult not to conclude that the National Dialogue is an idiotic and self-indulgent scheme cooked up by decadent elites untethered from reality, or at least greedy to share in the spoils of the lucrative consultancy work no doubt being generated by the jamboree. (more…)
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22 July 2025
MK party’s ConCourt challenge to Mchunu’s removal raises important constitutional law issues
Any invalidation further down the line of Prof Firoz Cachalia’s appointment as acting police minister would also render his decisions […]
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26 February 2025
Budget postponement brings into sharp focus SA’s new coalition reality
The postponement of the Budget was, on balance, a positive sign. It suggests a moderate degree of pragmatism among the […]
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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 […]
Quote of the week
This is how genocide denial functions now. It rarely arrives as a blunt denial of death, but rather cloaked in concern for truth, in the language of skepticism, media literacy, and even professional ethics. It does not claim that Palestinians aren’t dying. It simply asks, “how do we know they’re dying like this?” It casts doubt on the camera, the angle, and the sequence. It suggests that even if the suffering is real, the image has already ruined it—by being legible, by being replicated, by being seen too many times.
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