The DA’s sanitised reference to “the family” in its draft values document doesn’t get us far, writes Eusebius McKaiser. Freedom, fairness and opportunity: those ...
Political power is so addictive that younger ANC leaders are mimicking their elders to ensure self-preservation, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Criticism of students’ ideas without engagement is disheartening, writes Eusebius McKaiser
SA’s democracy will be under enormous pressure for as long as the ANC refuses to renew or re-invent itself, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Advocates of complete freedom fail to take adequate account of the consequences involved, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The ANC showed no appetite for electoral reform while it enjoyed the support of most of the voters, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
He is but a product of the party, and thus it should be embarrassed about what transpired in the elections
This time I won't be endorsing a party's policy position, instead I've opted to take a practical approach, writes Eusebius McKaiser
While the HSF interdict is a victory for democracy, the SABC still has other cases currently underway, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
WE HAVE started to rely quite slavishly on lawfare to settle important public disagreements. The latest lawfare is of course playing out at the SABC.
The limits of lawfare as a way of fixing the public broadcaster must be understood, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Freeing the language from its straitjacket would make it easier for all to be more comfortable with it, writes Eusebius McKaiser
Simply ticking off a box that says 'diversity training' is not going to break long-standing institutional habits of discrimination
THERE’S a moral panic in some sections of corporate South Africa. This could potentially be put to good use in terms of moving us closer to more inclusive workplace ...
This is the prepared text of the 2016 DCS Oosthuizen Academic Freedom Memorial Lecture that was delivered by Eusebius Mckaiser at the Rhodes University on 30 May ...
There is a difference between the artistic and moral engagement with a work of art and asking an artist to self-censor.
It’s easier to condemn violence than to ask why violence takes place, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
It is suspiciously easier to condemn violence than to ask why violence takes place. Violence, in its various permutations, means the destruction of public property ...
Racists can be hard to spot when they mimic the same range of human interactions as anti-racists, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Apologies for racism are now as popular as racism itself, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society.
There’s something distractingly pathetic about evoking an impressive past in an attempt to have one’s present-day failures be looked upon with kindness, writes Eusebius ...
There is something distractingly pathetic about evoking an impressive past in an attempt to have one's present-day failures be looked upon with kindness.
A politician who lies isn’t the worst of the lot, writes Eusebius McKaiser.