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Patrick Bulger is an experienced journalist and editor. He has worked as Sunday Times assistant editor and Business Day executive editor, among other positions.

Julius Malema says voters must stay off the booze on voting day and remove the ANC from government. File photo.
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PATRICK BULGER | Killing the Boer, cockroaches, little frogs — and free speech

Malema, AfriForum should take their absurdities elsewhere and leave Equality Court to those who need its services more urgently

In the run-up to the state of the nation address (Sona) next week, Thuli Madonsela has suggested SA should look to China for guidance on economic growth.
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‘Made in China’ growth model is a factory of tears

Thuli would have Cyril look to China for guidance on building the economy, which is fine if you don’t value freedom

EFF leader Julius Malema. File photo

No refusing marriages of inconvenience to uninvited suitors

Coalitions will be with us for some time and, who knows, they might just serve us better than what’s gone before

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter. File photo.
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Beyond a whiter shade of pale as De Ruyter flogs dead horse that’s Eskom

Some want him in, some want him out, while the EFF, well the EFF just wants to ‘moer’ him for ‘moering’ Eskom

Somizi just signed a huge deal with G.H. Mumm.
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Local is lekker, but hands off our Beemers and Cartiers!

Hats off to Treasury for protecting SA-produced cement, but it would help if such measures extended to luxury goods

The opening of the reportedly R15m Lesseyton Sports Facility in the Enoch Mgijima municipality on Monday.
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Let the people’s voice be heard when councils get that spending feeling

The R15m sports facility is just another example of ANC profligacy gone mad

The City of Johannesburg has had to deal with the mass migration of offices and workplaces to the suburbs.
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PATRICK BULGER | Not very smart to let our towns and cities die a painful death

Before it builds its utopia, perhaps the ANC should give some thought to the dystopias SA’s existing cities have become

EFF leader Julius Malema addresses the Olievenhoutbosch community near Centurion during his party's local election campaign.

Caught between unpopular Covid truths and winning local elections

Political parties will no doubt manipulate the pandemic’s impact to suit their own agendas

A supporter of Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro wears a mask during a demonstration by farmers against the Supreme Court and Covid-19 restrictions in Brasilia.

PATRICK BULGER | Bolsonaro says it’s arrest or death. Sound familiar?

The appetite among our Brics friends for a democratic order has dissipated. SA alone stands firm – barely

Two men received life sentences for a 2019 hit on a north coast taxi owner. File photo.

SA can learn lessons from China, but let’s make sure they’re the right ones

We are fixated on the first-world parts of our economy, whereas it’s in the informal sector that growth potential really lies

In 1879, in the first major stand-off of the Ango-Zulu war, warriors besieged British troops at Isandlwana to claim victory.

History: the thorny subject that’s always fair game for politicians

There is no single truth in it, which is worth remembering when politicos bang on about righting historical wrongs

US President Joe Biden.
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No use Biden our time. Let’s get on with nation-building

Just as the US gave a spectacular example of how not do do it, Zambia proved that it really needn’t be that hard

EFF leader Julius Malema. File photo.

PATRICK BULGER | Malema’s house is built on hot air ... but don’t expect it to collapse

One hopes voters aren’t duped by his bogus housing policy and his hypocritical rhetoric, but don’t hold your breath

Grace Dinkwanyana, 60, of Tafelkop, Limpopo, receives her title deed from President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Want land reform that works? Fine, let’s enter new territory

Only political direction can solve the land question, yet the project is doomed if left to politicians courting the popular will

Vladimir Putin-powered TV outfit Russia Today featured a thinly-veiled propaganda insert about the 'collapse of the US empire'.

PATRICK BULGER | Democracy in 2021: can you imagine Hitler with a Twitter account?

Embrace of due process, empirical data and civilised norms is no match for the relentless march of the algorithm