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Editorials
Is AgriSA Setting Up to Betray South Africa’s Farmers – Again?
This week, AgriSA, South Africa’s largest agricultural union, made the peculiar announcement that it was partnering with a group sympathetic to the state’s efforts to downplay the origins, context, and seriousness of farm attacks in South Africa.

Economics & Policy
South Africa Loses 435 000 Formal Jobs as Real Wage Bill Shrinks
South Africa’s formal non-agricultural employment has fallen by 4.0% since June 2023, while the total wage bill has declined by 1.6% after inflation.
Economics & Policy
SA Set for Record Diesel and Petrol Prices Next Wednesday
South African consumers should ready themselves for all-time high fuel prices next week.
Columns
Attacks on AfriForum are Backfiring
Simon Lincoln Reader writes that going after non-crooks with the same or even more vigour as real crooks should be grounds to section a reporter under local mental health prescripts.
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Mbeki’s Counter-Revolution Theory, Myburgh in Washington, and the 10 Million SA Left in Poverty
In the latest episode of Talking Sense the panel discusses Thabo Mbeki’s explanation for the ANC’s decline, farm attacks, and FMD vaccines.
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