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Johannesburg Is Regulating Its Entrepreneurs Out of Business
Street traders are not a problem to be managed. They are entrepreneurs creating value under difficult conditions. Johannesburg should make it easier for…
51 mins ago • Zakhele Mthembu
News24 Has United South Africans. We All Hate Them.
News24 has finally achieved what politicians have failed to do for decades: unite South Africans across racial and political divides in their hatred for…
17 hrs ago • Leigh-Ann Hallak
The Psychology of Freedom
Psychology and traditional liberalism may seem like very different disciplines, but both seek to expand individual choice.
Oct 13 • James Peron
There Is No White Genocide. But There Is Agricide.
We do not need a white genocide for farm murders to be a national disgrace. And we certainly don’t need to be white to be a victim.
Oct 12 • Nicholas Woode-Smith
Women Need Justice, Not Another Summit
No summit can replace a functional police service. Women need safety and justice, not another strategic plan.
Oct 11 • RS Guest Author
Trade Makes War More Expensive, Not Impossible
The US-Iran truce shows both the promise and limits of economic interdependence. Trade cannot guarantee peace, but it makes war more costly.
Oct 10 • RS Guest Author
Why South Africa is Losing the Race to Get Rich
South Africa is losing the race to get rich.
Oct 9 • Rational Standard Editor
The Constitution is not the last word on self-determination
Self-determination is not a favour granted by the Constitution, but a right rooted in international law.
Oct 9 • RS Guest Author
When the Informal Market Works Better Than the Banks
Nigerians did not choose informal finance out of nostalgia. They chose it because it is available, cheaper, familiar and far lighter on paperwork.
Oct 8 • RS Guest Author
Three Years After October 7, We Will Not Apologise For standing With Israel
Three years after October 7, families are still living with the absence of people who should have come home.
Oct 7 • RS Guest Author
Who Gets to Own October 7?
Three years after Hamas’s massacre, October 7 is being denied, inverted and recast as the starting point of Palestinian suffering. In the process…
Oct 7 • Ilan Preskovsky
What Happens When You Can’t Trust a Contract
Where enforcement is unreliable, exchange contracts to the circle of people you trust, and that circle is always smaller than the market could have…
Oct 6 • RS Guest Author
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