A number of insights during a debate at the University of Cape Town – Betrayal of the Promise: Understanding South Africa’s Political Crisis – came from
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Results6Sun City: not so naughty, twice as nice
Government ministers, business people and representatives from the media joined a host of entertainers including fire throwers, stilt walkers, dancers and a scattering of Miss South
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#Trumpexit: let’s start a revolution
Brexit, Trump and the beginning of the end … Imagine if we really have reached that tipping point, the archduke has been assassinated … what will you do on
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Value of social grants outstrips cost
Flying in the face of criticism that social grants spark dependency, comprehensive studies in Zambia have shown that the benefits of cash transfers to poor families
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From the snowy peaks of Davos to the green hills of Kigali
It seems impossible not to feel the weight of history in Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills. Terrible things happen. The world keeps turning. People recover. I
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Some ramblings on the SA Budget 2016
More bang than you might think … At first glance, February 24’s 2016 Budget speech by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan lacked the sort of radical or dramatic
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