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Ivo Vegter: "An idea that consistently protects incumbents, thins the ranks of providers, chases skilled personnel abroad, raises prices, reduces quality and worsens access is not a misfired good intention; it is a known failure being proposed again." #NationalHealth #ConstitutionalCourt #ANC Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/26/the…

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Mark Oppenheimer: "Most revealingly, it says that “without selection” the Bar would not be able to “fast-track transformation” because there are proportionately more white male applicants than others. If selection is used to prevent too many white men from joining the profession, then the policy is racially discriminatory." #Advocates #transformation #admission Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/25/bar…

Terence Corrigan: "The overall thesis of Liberation and Corruption is that corruption was deeply entrenched in colonial (or otherwise pre-liberation) societies, and that this created the context within which their successors – specifically the liberation movements, which are Hain’s prime concern – came to operate." #liberation #corruption #SouthAfrica Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/25/a-c…

Barry D. Wood: "Central banks are stockpiling gold, it continues, because the dollar-based banking system has been weaponized and could be replaced by a new order with gold—not the dollar—as anchor." #gold #usdollar #crypto Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/24/wha…

Garth Zietsman: "Friedman goes on to say that whenever government wants to spend it must finance this from the revenues it collects, and if that falls short of its requirements it has to borrow or print money. The obvious consequence of borrowing or printing money for excess spending is that there is now excess money chasing the same goods and services. In other words, inflation." #inflation #money #governmentspending Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/24/inf…

Econ Bro: "I have heard the usual defence. People say they support freedom. They say they oppose coercion. Ask them plainly if they support slavery and they recoil immediately. Of course not." #freedom #tobaccobill #will Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/24/the…

Chris Hattingh: "The President attributes the decline to the global financial crisis and state capture. While both played a role, they are not the full story, and dwelling on them obscures the policy failures that remain active today." #economicdecline #policyfailure #investment Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/23/the…

Sindile Vabaza: "The most startling consequence of this stalling was the destruction of the black-owned businesses which the government regularly invokes when trying to garner black votes." #Eskom #blackowners #taxpayers Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/23/rem…

Wanda Watt: "The Constitution institutionalises these points. It says everyone is entitled to equal treatment and no unfair discrimination is permissible on visceral grounds, race not least. It also says that racial differentiation will be presumed to be unfair until the contrary is proved." #race #SouthAfrica #constitution Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/23/wil…

Ivo Vegter: "By consigning enough people to an early grave, the survivors will on average be younger and healthier, and we won’t have to look at alarming chronic disease or cancer charts ever again." #chronicdisease #cancer #Humanity Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/22/mah…

Steven Boykey Sidley: "The investor-owned, professionally managed, dynamically priced short-term rental unit shares nothing with anyone. It is a hotel room without room service." #Airbnb #travel #accommodation Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/22/the…

Simon Lincoln Reader: "Granta, the Commonwealth Creatives and anyone moved by this stinking language model bollocks, this whirlpooling sewage in manically cerebral fancy dress, have all been fisted by technology, worn like a puppet." #literaryworld #SouthAfrica #literaryfestival Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/05/22/she…

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