Terence Corrigan, Daily Friend – 30 July 2021 The failure of the ANC and EFF to agree on the form of the proposed amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution has led some optimists to conclude that this is the moment in which the EFF is isolated and abandoned. The ANC under President Ramaphosa, so […]
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South Africa since 1994: a mixed bag of presidents and patchy
There is a severe challenge to the “normative core” – the underlying values and ethical principles that hold a society together Richard Calland, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town and Mabel Dzinouya Sithole, Programme Officer – Building Bridges, University of Cape Town 22 July 2021 The coronavirus pandemic has placed the leadership […]
Ivermectin: balance of evidence shows no benefit against Covid-19
By Nathan Geffen and Elsabé Brits, GroundUp – 5 July 2021 Ivermectin has been touted as the wonder drug solution to the Covid-19 crisis. Several trials have suggested it may have some benefit. But the largest trial yet comparing ivermectin to placebo was published on Friday. It found no statistically significant benefit from ivermectin but possible harm from […]
We studied why South Africans vote the way they do. This is what we found
Race continues to be a predictor of voter preference Leila Patel, Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg and Yolanda Sadie, Emeritus professor in Politics, University of Johannesburg – 22 June 2021 South Africans are set to go to the polls on 27 October 2021 for the country’s sixth municipal elections since the advent […]
Covid-19: why the lab leak theory must be formally investigated
We don’t know how the virus arrived in Wuhan, how its sequence evolved to allow human infection, and under what conditions it infected the first people who crossed its path. And for each of these stages, we don’t know whether there was a human contribution (direct or indirect). Virginie Courtier, CNRS Research Director, Genetics and […]
ANC’s proposed ‘custodianship’ of land a grave risk to SA future – IRR
We have repeatedly warned that custodianship of land was the likely endgame of the drive on property rights. Daily Friend – 1 June 2021 South Africans are warned to take note of the grave implications of the proposals put forward by the ANC for amending Section 25 of the Constitution, which would not only sideline […]
ANC Corruption, Factionalism and Radical Policies Likely to Continue
by Stef Terblanche – 28 May 2021 It was that 15th century master interpreter of political cunning and deception, Niccolò Machiavelli, who wrote: “Men will not look at things as they really are, but as they wish them to be – and are ruined”. He may as well have written that as a warning to […]
The ANC is coming for your guns!
The Democratic Alliance has called on the Civilian Secretariat to appear before Parliament’s Portfolio Committee of Police to give a detailed presentation on the contents of the Firearms Control Amendment Bill, which seeks to stop law-abiding citizens from possessing firearms. “South Africa is like a war zone with a murder rate that exceeds some war-torn […]
Three proposed changes to the EWC constitutional amendment bill
By Anthea Jeffery, Daily Friend – May 2021 The draft constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) allowing land expropriation without compensation (EWC) is already damaging enough to make South Africa largely uninvestable. The Ad Hoc Committee (the Committee) responsible for drafting the Bill is nevertheless considering amending it – and making it very much worse – […]
Process begins to hold arms deal commission judges accountable for gross misconduct
Open Secrets – 11 May 2021 On 11 August 2020, non-profit organisations Shadow World Investigations and Open Secrets submitted a complaint to the Chairperson of the Judicial Conduct Committee (of the Judicial Service Commission). The detailed complaint focused on the High Court’s damning judgment which finds that Judge Willie Seriti and Judge Hendrick Musi had failed to investigate the Arms Deal during the […]