This article was first published by Daily Friend on 22 August 2024 The recent controversies over “racism” at Pretoria High School for Girls and Chidimma Adetshina’s
It remains my view that South Africa should stay comfortably away from reintroducing the death penalty.
It is important for liberals to understand that there are electoral limitations for liberalism.
Expelling them, quietly, for actual misbehaviour, is an appropriate remedy. Traumatising them in full view of the world is not.
Humanity collectively appeared to embrace the rejection of the insidious idea that one could justify abhorrent conduct by appealing to superior orders. And yet, in 2024, “they’re only doing their jobs” remains as accepted an excuse as ever.
We have a responsibility towards ourselves, and this is the only way liberty can exist and be sustained.
Widespread criminalisation enables the state – under the cover of the ‘rule of law’ – to victimise anyone at will.
In a free market, there are no “two groups” of “blacks and whites,” but an infinitely diverse mixture of producers and consumers, and providers and clients.
The rubber has met the road: It is now that it will be decided whether the DA or IFP’s apparent dedication to political decentralisation has been sincere.
Other than the robust turnover we have seen at municipal level replicating itself with the GNU in the central and provincial spheres, other factors also point to a coalition held together by duct tape.
