EXACTLY how is the country to going pay for free education? This is the question foremost on people's minds, as the country sobers up to the events of the past weeks, which saw the unprecedented storming of parliament and storming of the Union Buildings. Surprisingly, South Africa, ( as previousl...

IN 1994, the ruling party charted an economic course born out of the Interim Constitution and the Codesa negotiation process. Essentially, it involved embracing a 'mixed economy' approach, in which a market economy would exist side-by-side with a "dirigiste" economy, that had, as its antecedent,...

WHAT is more embarrassing than Kohler-Barnard tweeting about PW Botha? SANEF and the Minister of Justice supporting the career of PW Botha at Naspers. Both parties (Justice and Naspers) have acknowledged papers served in a case before the Equality Court EC19/2015. The case has been brought in ter...

LATEST round of apartheid hagiography appears to curry favour with former combatants in the apartheid-era SADF. The opinion piece doing the rounds in SA media penned by Theresa Edlmann who claims to be  a “Post-doctoral fellow in History at University of South Africa”  is really a pop-psych makeo...

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IN HIS 65,000-word Anti-Jewish treatise written in 1543, German Reformation leader Martin Luther called the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah a heretic: "Jeremiah, you wretched heretic, you seducer and false prophet". He then claimed that Jewish history was "assailed by much heresy", and that “Christ the l...