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Democracy and deliberation: Dennis Davis must sleep in the bed he helped make
Davis’s own intellectual and judicial record places him firmly in the latter camp, so that is hardly surprising.
14 July 2026
Davis’s own intellectual and judicial record places him firmly in the latter camp, so that is hardly surprising.
Practically, the DA should abandon the language of “request” and “suggestion”.
The question for the rest of the West, including South Africa, is whether we will follow, or whether we will recover…
There are good ideas and there are bad ideas.
If Parliament rubber-stamps this approach, Ramaphosa’s “anti-illicit” crusade will be remembered not as disruption of criminal syndicates…
Capitalism’s great moral innovation is not that it makes men good. It is that it makes the bad man’s ambition useful.
A race law is most accurately and simply defined as positive law that renders a person’s biological or…
This is precisely what broad swathes of civil society in South Africa had been saying for years, for no other reason than that it is true.
But I now have my doubts about whether the FW de Klerk Foundation is pulling in the same direction.
The problematisation of representivity, for example, has contributed to some of the worst human rights disasters in human history.