The Common Sense
22 September 2026
No. 128Subscribe

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Columns

The Legacy Media Is Getting a Lot Wrong About the November Elections

As South Africa’s local government elections draw near, legacy media reporting becomes increasingly ignorant and misleading.

The Legacy Media Is Getting a Lot Wrong About the November Elections
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Politics

South Africans Back the US Against the Government on BEE and EWC

Washington has put black economic empowerment and expropriation at the centre of its concerns with South Africa — and South Africans are taking Washington's side.

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Politics

Court Blocks Government’s Most Prescriptive Racial Procurement Regime Yet

The Constitutional Court has struck down the Public Procurement Act, stopping a new system that would have deepened mandatory race-based procurement requirements across hundreds of state institutions at great cost to the economy and South Africa's people.

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Columns

Agricultural Business Confidence Up but Future Concerns Remain

There is much positive sentiment in South Africa's agriculture sector but there are a number of serious risks lurking.

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Politics

ANC “Always” Supported Meritocratic, Depoliticised Public Service – No, It Did Not

The ANC now claims it always championed a meritocratic, depoliticised public service, but its own record of cadre deployment and rejection of merit tell a very different story.

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