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Short on hope, long on promises
(First published on Fin24 and in City Press, South Africa) The annual SONA ritual played itself out again last week: the labour movement expressing the hope that, for a change, something meaningful would be said that would filter through to implementation via the coming budget. And it is the budget to be announced on February […]
A riveting & uncomfortable read
February 15, 2021
1986 by William Dicey (Umuzi, 304 pp) You, who forget your history are destined forever to repeat the horrors of the past. This, and words to similar effect have become something of a cliché. But although constantly repeated, this warning is seldom acted on. In South Africa, it is today not so much a case […]
Democracy depends on sound information — and no state interference
February 1, 2021
Covid-19 highlighted a range of structural faults in society; faults we know more about because information was relayed to us. In the process, and with the advent of social media, we have also become increasingly aware of how information can be — and is — distorted and of the damage fake news can do. In […]
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February 15, 2021
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