Politics

South Africans are open to moving away from race-based policy.

Columns

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.

Global

A chance conversation among The Common Sense staffers at an editorial meeting last week led to thinking that pet ownership trends in China may amount to more than an endearing insight into the evolution of that society.

Politics

South Africa faces a threat, not from across the border, but from beneath its soil.

Columns

Wandile Sihlobo writes on the complexities of regional agricultural trade.