The Common Sense
29 September 2026
No. 132Subscribe

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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.

Mbeki Says the ANC was Brought Down by an Orchestrated Counter-Revolution
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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.

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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?

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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.

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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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