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Politics
Mbeki Says the ANC was Brought Down by an Orchestrated Counter-Revolution
Former president Thabo Mbeki has written a 120-page thesis arguing that the ANC was brought down by a counter-revolution plotted from inside South Africa’s post-1994 state.

Columns
Good Harvests Help to Keep Food Inflation Low, But War and Weather Could Intervene
Wandile Sihlobo writes on how bumper harvests are keeping South Africa’s food inflation low, and why war and drought could push prices higher.
Family
South Africans Are Marrying Later
South Africans are waiting until they are in their 30s to get married. What are the implications of this?
Columns
The Common Sense’s Diary
Hand-wringing on JNZ, the elites dare blame the poor, the poor are more pragmatic, the elites must carry the can, they did a lot of the damage, perhaps most of it, now they deny that.
Columns
Reform Is a Moral Question
This is why The Common Sense takes an aggressively strong editorial line on economic reform.
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Frans Cronje talks about the Western Cape and Cape Town governments striking a blow against race-bas…
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