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South Africa Needs AI Accountability Without a Permission Slip

Good rules should make accountability unavoidable without making experimentation exceptional.

3 hrs ago • RS Guest Author

Is the Right in South Africa Now Woke Too?

Has South Africa’s political right adopted the language and tactics of the woke left, or is Afrikaner self-protection something fundamentally different?

Aug 13 • PIET DU PLESSIS

What Schools Refuse to Teach About Political Islam

A curriculum shaped by monopoly interests, whether religious, ideological or bureaucratic, cannot produce free and informed citizens.

Aug 12 • RS Guest Author

The Architecture of Agency

Institutions should be judged by whether they expand human agency or quietly turn dependence into permanence.

Aug 11 • Bryan Theunissen

The Real Horror Is Central Planning

Even when surrounded by monsters, the answer is always freedom.

Aug 10 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

South Africa’s Multiple Worldviews: Reflections on the Prospects for Ideological Unity in the RSA

South Africa’s deepest divide is ideological: classical liberalism and the NDR envision fundamentally different countries.

Aug 9 • PIET DU PLESSIS

Nigerians Didn’t Resist Digital Money, They Survived It

Nigeria’s cash crisis was not a revolt against digital money, but a brutal lesson in unintended consequences and spontaneous order.

Aug 8 • Econ Bro

Can the Constitution survive EWC?

Join David Ansara, Martin van Staden and Nicholas Woode-Smith as they unpack some of the most pressing issues of the week.

Aug 7 • Rational Standard Editor

Turning Sand Into Gold: The Case For A Radical ‘Freedom SEZ’

A radical Freedom Special Economic Zone (SEZ) could prove that prosperity begins with the freedom to build, trade and own.

Aug 7

The Sinful Nature Of Statism

Only the Bible tells you why limited government is the only option: no person can ever be trusted with absolute power.

Aug 6 • Mpiyakhe Dhlamini

The Burqa Does Not Liberate, and the State Does Not Own Women

The Taliban’s war on women is not merely a religious or cultural issue. It is the logical result of a state that claims ownership over private life.

Aug 5 • RS Guest Author

South Africa Must Stop Excusing Extremism in the Pro-Palestine Movement

South Africa cannot allow concern for Palestinian suffering to become a shield behind which extremists intimidate Jews and other political opponents.

Aug 4 • RS Guest Author

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