Professor Steven Friedman in an article in Business Day says that the media has it wrong about secrecy law’s victims and that the failure of the media to analyse the bill accurately may be the only reason it has received so much attention.
He ba...
African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe in a report in The Star newspaper on Friday called upon newspaper editors to join the debate on setting up a media tribunal rather than act defensively.
Mantashe said the invitation is in ...
Consent is not the same as submission. Consent requires submission, but submission does not require consent. So when someone submits to something, it doesn't mean they consent to it. This is important because our rape legislation is the only legislat...
Will humanity one day look back on the days when people were regarded as greater or lesser beings because of their racial origins in the same way as we now look back on the era of witch hunting? This question assumes that at least some progress has b...
As Louis Gossett Jr advises in the Windhoek ads, "Keep it real".
When it comes to interest rates and alcohol, real is better.
So forget about inflation-targeting. Let's have a new target: a positive real interest rate of say 3%.
What this ...
Listening to a student telling me about being confronted in his home by a man wielding a butcher’s knife, then locking himself in his room and, with the man stomping about outside his bedroom door, kicking out the burglar proofing to escape (from h...
Like a defeated army in retreat, our minister of magic seems intent on leaving behind nothing but ruins for her successor. In what appears to be a frenetic dash to the finish line, the final stage of her marathon of misconduct, Dr Beet and her depart...
When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, opened this can of worms, he must have cut his hand on the tin. His suggestion that sharia law might have a place within British law has left a gash in his support base so wide that it will need u...
It hurts to say this, but I agree with the health minister. Like her, I believe that something needs to be done to address private hospitals’ proposed tariff increases. But the problem, which the minister has yet to admit, is that she appears to ha...
Before any of you start writing in to tell me that the Act wouldn't affect an ugly old goat like me, I want to place on record that some of my old girlfriends have won competitions!
These include, but are not limited to, the Crufts Hurdling Champi...
