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Nicholas Woode-Smith

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Nicholas Woode-Smith

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R100 billion transformation fund simply another avenue for corruption

The idea of heavily subsidising black-owned businesses is flawed because it completely misunderstands what makes a business successful

As squatting rates rise, the incentive to develop property and rent it out plummets. (File photo by ANNA ZIEMINSKI / AFP)

Do squatters have more rights than property owners in South Africa?

Victims should not need to pay legal fees and wait an inordinate amount of time just to kick what amounts to a criminal trespasser from their land

Protesters stand with portraits of Israeli hostages Ronan Angel (54), Omer Shem Tov (21), Inbar Hayman (27), Yosef Alzayadni, Maksym Harkin (35), and others during a demonstration by the families of the hostages taken captive in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian militants during the October 7, 2023 attacks, calling for action to release the hostages, outside the Israeli Prime Minister’s residence in Azza (Gaza) Street in central Jerusalem on October 24, 2024.  (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza

The country isn’t a white colonial project — and it has a right to defend itself

A response to racially-charged assertions

The article shows ignorance about liberalism, its supporters and what it has done for this country and the rest of the world

Eskom’s Kendal power station in Kendal, near Emalahleni, on March 26, 2024. (Photo by OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT / AFP)

Only the private sector can end Eskom’s diesel dependency and load-shedding

Eskom is a political entity and not a private company, which is why it has been unable to truly hold non-paying customers accountable

Civil servants are meant to serve. If they don’t, civilians need to stand up for their rights.

Don’t vilify good cops in South Africa’s desperate fight against crime

Proactively intercepting violent criminals prevents the killing of the innocent

A Cape Town Metro Police officer conducts a police search operation in Hannover Park. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

Gang violence in Western Cape demands urgent strategies to combat rising death toll

Solutions to quell the daily violence are literally a matter of life and death

“Didn’t the world support the boycott of apartheid South Africa?” (Photo by Jonathan C. Katzenellenbogen/Getty Images)

Federalism is not Apartheid

While the South African Constitution enshrines federal principles, the ANC has repeatedly ignored this

The mandatory service system leaves doctors dependent on the incompentent health department

Abolish community service for new doctors

The mandatory service system leaves doctors dependent on the incompentent health department

Raising the minimum wage won’t save South Africa

Rather do away with the unimplementable law and acknowledge that the minimum wage is what individuals are willing to work for and employers willing to pay