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The Election Is Over. The REAL Fight Begins.
Can the DA and ActionSA put aside their differences? Will the ANC find a way back into power? And can South Africa's fractured municipal councils…
7 hrs ago
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Rational Standard Editor
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The Gig Economy Is All Young People Have Left
Platform work gives an important foothold in an economy that doesn’t offer many. Paralysing these platforms with red tape will just take away jobs that…
12 hrs ago
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RS Guest Author
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UCT Has 200,000 Alumni. Why Are So Few Having Their Say?
UCT needs rational alumni now more than ever: graduates who read, ask questions and vote on the evidence. Convocation is where that happens.
Nov 12
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RS Guest Author
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The End Of African Nationalism? A Response To Moeletsi Mbeki
African nationalism can be a constructive political ideology if it divorces itself from the statist paradigm that it acquired through its interaction…
Nov 11
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Ayanda S Zulu
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Foreign Aid Creates Dependency Not Development
This isn’t an argument to ‘abandon’ the poor; it is an argument for deserting a model that reduces them to passive receivers.
Nov 10
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RS Guest Author
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The Best Possible Coalition
The DA must work with the ANC, but never trust it.
Nov 9
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PIET DU PLESSIS
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Of The 2026 Elections
The ANC is collapsing, the DA is gaining, but ActionSA and coalition politics threaten to keep the old order alive.
Nov 8
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Nicholas Woode-Smith
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Is Cost-Push Inflation Even Real?
Costs can change prices, but they can’t create money.
Nov 8
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Econ Bro
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The ANC is losing South Africa, but who will govern our cities?
The 2026 local government elections have exposed the decline of ANC dominance, but political change will mean little without accountability, stable…
Nov 7
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RS Guest Author
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Who Won South Africa’s Cities?
On this episode of the Rational Standard Podcast, host Nicholas Woode-Smith is joined by Dr Martin van Staden and Ayanda Zulu to go through the…
Nov 6
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Rational Standard Editor
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A Farm Attack On One Is An Injury To All
Farm attacks are not a racial issue, but a national crisis. South Africa's failure to protect its citizens threatens everyone, regardless of race or…
Nov 6
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RS Guest Author
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Europe's Unrest Is a Warning South Africa Cannot Ignore
Europe’s unrest is a warning for South Africa, where deeper poverty, weaker institutions and economic decline threaten even greater instability.
Nov 5
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PIET DU PLESSIS
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