Steven Friedman

IS who sends a message and how they send it more important than the message they send?

HAS the coalition, by accident, set this country on the way to more democratic budgeting?

HATE will not end if we command it to go away. But it can do us less harm if we face it and take it on.

WILL events in the US and Europe cure this country’s decision-makers and -shapers of a crippling bias? They should but probably won’t.

DONALD Trump and Elon Musk share a ‘skill’ most of us would prefer not to have – they make ‘respectable’ prejudices sound shameful.

THE prejudices of this country’s elites are never pretty. Now, in Stilfontein, they have claimed at least 88 lives.

THE prejudices of this country’s elites are never pretty. Now, in Stilfontein, they have claimed at least 88 lives.

THE ANC is edging closer to recognising what it needs to do to win back the trust of its voters. But it still seems set on tackling symptoms, not causes.

IT is very common in this country’s public debate to dismiss meetings convened by the government as ‘talk shops.’ Next year, this cliché will, for once, tell the truth.

NOW we really do know that, if democracy needs to get along without the West, it will.