Today In Fact, 24 May
Bob Dylan, Oubaas, and Vicky. Three of the oddest people share a birthday today. Now…
Our World Keeps Getting Better
America’s Business Insider has published graphs on US and global human progress of these last…
Today In Fact, 23 May
Coming out of our shells. I have an abiding interest in limit conditions. Those situations…
Lessons SA’s Opposition History
In a speech to the Education Colloquium of the Democratic Alliance caucus on 15 May…
The successful limits of BEE
Impatience with improving the economic lot of black South Africans is understandable, given the relative…
Anchen Dreyer MP on giving state-owned land and title to the poor…
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Why Rhino Poaching Matters
By Sarah Britten I’ll bet my Friday was more interesting than your Friday. If you…
W(h)ither the whites?
The 1994 transition liberated black South Africans from oppression, but also liberated whites, writes Frans…
Sadtu’s Darkening Horizon
These are not salad days for the SA Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu), largest teacher union…
Today In Fact, 20 May
The Pretoria bombing. It was the beginning of afternoon rush hour traffic in downtown Pretoria…
Today In Fact, 17 May
SA’s mining industry lost more than R15 billion in production during the strikes in the…
Today In Fact, 15 May
Fast Fact for the day: Some 7.8 million out of 13 million households, or 60%,…
Clem Sunter on “Why we’re so Glum”…
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Time for People’s Capitalism
With 16 million people on state grants this year, our welfare net is more extensive…
Today In Fact, 14 May
Fast Fact of the day: The ANC has been capturing a decreasing proportion of eligible…
Today In Fact, 10 May
Today in modern history is the day that marks the beginning of eras. Today in 1869,…
Today In Fact, 9 May
The Pill and the EU. Five years after the end of the Second World War,…
Today In Fact, 8 May
A 14th century feminist, and the Red Cross. There was a woman called Julian whose…
The interested social investor
We’re living at a time pleasant in its emphasis on societal wellbeing and on everyone…
Trends of progress to cheer SA
To bookend the Freedom Day weekend a fortnight back, The Star newspaper put out one of…
Today In Fact, 7 May
Racionzers, Brahms, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. I live in a home with musicians. On any day…
Twisting history harms democracy
The way some have it, you’d think our history was a simple Good versus Evil…
Big lobsters and Kangaroo biltong
I often chat to Ashraf Garda on his Sunday morning media and marketing show, and…
Today In Fact, 6 May
Two things strike me about today. The first is that it is International No Diet…
The Sunday Evening Blues
A wintry Sunday evening in Joburg. Mellow sun and the work-harder dove seep below the…
Journos playing Mugabe’s game
The only way to claim Zim land “reform” success is to ignore facts, says Roy…
Today In Fact, 2 May
Today is Theodor Herzl’s birthday. Born in Pest on the other side of the river…