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thecommonsense.co.za > Editorials > how-racial-ideology-continues-poison-university-cape-town

How Racial Ideology Continues to Poison the University of Cape

13+ hour, 31+ min ago   (1674+ words) – September 14, 2026 A few weeks ago, a first-year politics student at the University of Cape Town sent me a folder containing a set of seven audio recordings, each about 45 minutes long, of lectures recently delivered by Dr Lwazi Lushaba during the…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > Politics > when-will-kzn-secede-south-africa

When Will KZN Secede from South Africa?

13+ hour, 31+ min ago   (426+ words) – September 14, 2026 Start with leader favourability. In South Africa as a whole, Jacob Zuma, the purported fiend of state capture, has a favourability score of 26% and an unfavourability score of 56%. In practice, what this means is that a quarter of people…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > Editorials > ernst-roets-doing-good-thing

Ernst Roets is Doing a Good Thing on Farm Murders

13+ hour, 31+ min ago   (421+ words) – September 14, 2026 The project is being driven by Ernst Roets and his new Lex Libertas think tank. Roets is a hardliner and former deputy CEO of AfriForum. He is perhaps the most hardline Afrikaner leader South Africa has produced since the…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > Politics > shake-up-south-africa-s-municipalities-get-its-economy

Shake Up South Africa’s Municipalities to Get its Economy Working

4+ day, 43+ min ago   (468+ words) – September 10, 2026 Report author Terence Corrigan said that the quality of municipal government has a decisive influence on a country’s ability to attract investment, support businesses, and generate employment. In South Africa, municipal dysfunction means that this influence is largely negative....

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thecommonsense.co.za > polls > voters-are-no-more-hopeful-than-they-were-march

Voters Are No More Hopeful Than They Were in March

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (125+ words) – September 10, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters what they make of the…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > Editorials > how-equal-education-sadtu-work-stunt-poor-black-children

How Equal Education and SADTU Work to Stunt Poor Black Children

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (335+ words) – September 10, 2026 There has been no starker case study of this than the multi-year lobby and court action the two groups have run against the introduction of what is, in practice, a variation of the charter school model for South Africa,…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > Politics > black-vote-fragments

Black Vote Fragments

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (455+ words) – September 10, 2026 South Africa’s black electorate is no longer dominated by a single political party, with support primarily divided between the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), the Democratic Alliance (DA), and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF). The chart…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > polls > only-three-ten-anc-voters-say-ramaphosa-innocent

Only Three in Ten ANC Voters Say Ramaphosa Is Innocent

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (129+ words) – September 10, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters whether the country is on…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > Economics%20%26%20Policy > government-running-out-taxpayers

The Government is Running Out of Taxpayers

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (189+ words) – September 9, 2026 Here follows some of the data. South Africa has a population of around 63 million people. Of those, only around 16.7 million people, or 27%, are employed. There are only around 750 000 people earning more than R750 000 a year, equivalent to roughly 1.2% of South…...

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thecommonsense.co.za > polls > half-voters-have-given-november-elections-lot-thought

Half of Voters Have Given the November Elections a Lot of Thought

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (121+ words) – September 9, 2026 To support our journalism, and unlock all of our investigative stories and provocative commentary, subscribe below. Full access to insight, analysis, and data. Help shape an organisation committed to our values. We asked voters how each governing party is…...