The Common Sense
30 June 2026
No. 68Subscribe

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Columns

The Common Sense’s Diary

AfriForum; when Steve Biko helped the Afrikaners; how a people lose everything; it is irrelevant whether you’re oppressed; why blacks had to stop worrying about what the whites were doing; we were all enslaved once; theories of trauma; how the whites killed Biko but the ANC destroyed black self-belief; why the Afrikaner right dislikes Trump’s offer; the internal and external attacks on AfriForum; South Africa is one big conservative melting pot; the laager or integration – what should the Afrikaners now do; The Common Sense could have this all wrong.

The Common Sense’s Diary
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Politics

General Feroz Khan Was Shot to Prevent Him Implicating Politicians in Corruption

The suspended Crime Intelligence general was due to testify before the Madlanga Commission, where his evidence and seized devices were expected to expose political protection, corruption, and criminal infiltration inside SAPS.

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Columns

Jousting with Ghosts in South African Politics

Benji Shulman writes on how South African politics is being haunted.

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Economics & Policy

Warning: This is How Your Pension May Be Lost

The management of the government’s Isibaya Fund is a warning about what may happen to all pension funds in a future South Africa.

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Politics

ANC Calls for Corruption Investigation into the DA Following Steenhuisen Revelations

The African National Congress (ANC) has called for a corruption inquiry into its Government of National Unity (GNU) partner following revelations from John Steenhuisen that another former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader, Tony Leon, had lobbied DA ministers in the government. Leon has dismissed the call as being without merit.

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