Too much passion, too little reasoning in SA

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I have always found it curious just how many of the big political decisions in our country are not based on any known argument for those of us affected by them to ...

Don't contribute to future ignorance

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I once asked a renowned researcher in the area of violence and security why it was that we had the levels of violence we have in our society.

History will be Zuma’s true judge

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Dear Mr President, I am not going to ask you to resign. That settled, I am writing to you directly because like you I love my country.

Chief justice shows up critics

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FOR the last week South Africa has been basking in the glow of the Constitutional Court judgment that found that President Jacob Zuma had violated his oath of office. ...

Moving to SA no answer for Samuel L Jackson

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DEAR Mr Samuel L Jackson, I don’t know if what I read – about you saying that if America elected Donald Trump you would move to South Africa – is true. I assume ...

Constrain right to protest to preserve democracy

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LAST Thursday I happened to be at The Star newspaper’s Sauer Street office in the Johannesburg CBD.

Women’s rights continue to take back seat

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A friend of mine took me to task last week for the last two columns I had written.

Country suffering from lack of imagination

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I was planning to write about why the lack of outrage from President Jacob Zuma regarding the quality of work proportional to the price paid for it done at his house ...