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WHAT is cheered today could come back to bite us tomorrow.

THE Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, would no doubt be horrified to be called a champion of colonial thinking. So would many whose loud voices agree with him. But that is exactly what they are.

WHY do we take it for granted that human beings should stand in a line and fill out forms to claim one of our most basic rights?

IF the people are not what the government want them to be, the people must change.

IF democracy is to flourish, its advocates may need to rescue it from the West.

SOUTH Africa’s rugby World Cup win won’t inspire anyone to unite us behind a common goal – we should cheer this as much as the win itself.

GOVERNING is about dealing with people, not numbers.

TAKING sides in Palestine will not block a fair and just settlement – it is the only way to achieve it.

JUDGES, we are being told, can take political sides – as long as they take the ‘right’ side.

ARE most people across the globe bigots who have been pretending to be tolerant for decades? That is what elites say – but not what the evidence says.