Professor Mohamed Paleker will present the first of four lectures to be held in May as part of the UCT Inaugural Lecture series. His lecture will take place on Tuesday, 7 May 2024 at 17:30 SAST at the Oliver Tambo Moot Court, Level 5, Kramer Law Building on middle campus.  Read…

Still chuckiling at the freudian slip I witnessed earlier this week - was at a conference, and an older academic kept referring to 'dissidents' instead of 'descendents'.

It would seem non-aligned countries are going to have to start offering political asylum to US students.

The choice in the US appears to be between two different shades of fascism.

I thought we had it bad...

Happy Workers' Day - to all who identify as such.

On the 2nd of June, we need to have a discussion with all those people who argued that pursuing ever deeper austerity will not lose you votes..

If only former President Mbeki hadn't been seduced by Thatcherism - it would have been interesting to see what the ANC could have achieved under his leadership.

What are the chances that President Ramaphosa will course correct in his second term?

The national DA have thankfully made a significant misstep here since Min Wage is the policy the President is most proud of - if they put this on the table, there would be no deal.

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I think the impact of MK is proving difficult to project. It will be interesting to see which of the ANC, EFF and IFP is most impacted.

This is such an important question to ask.

It's finally on Twitter

Zimbabwe must accept the reality that the Rand is the only route to stabilize and to rebuild the country.

This is very strange - despite appropriating the name MK the party is actually behaving like a splinter of the IFP.

The IFP perhaps is the real target of this party's electioneering, but the coherence is hard to find.