The registration of medicines should be a political process, it should not be a science issue alone.
As general and condensed as that one sentence from the Health Director General Thami Mseleku is it betrays why the South African healthcare sector is failing and the country has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the [...]
I shall be heading back home to Jhb in two days from Japan, so I shall most likely be out of the loop of all things pertinent for quite a while. I expect normal transmissions shall resume in late August or September from my side.
Now watch and see the world explodes without my wondrous insight [...]
The big news of the week – unless you’re Serbian that is – is the brokering of talks between the MDC’s Morgan Tsvangirai and Mugabe, Tyrant-extraordinaire of Zimbabwe. At present it appears to be just an agreement to talk, and no real consensus for power-sharing has been forthcoming. Still, considering the diplomatic ineptitude of Zimbabwe’s [...]
There’s an interesting article at Harper’s Magazine on market bubbles going back to February, with worthwhile tidbits on economics and the cause and ramifications of American house price increases.
Parts of it are indeed speculative while many of the amounts put forward are admittedly not calculated in a properly empirical manner, but it’s still interesting to [...]
The July 12th edition of The Economist has a fascinating article on the fresh new face of the Tory party, David Cameron, and how he is fast recapturing the appeal of voting conservative. I was struck with the similarity in how McCain is faced with the same challenges Cameron has achieved so far; that of [...]
(Author’s note: This essay was originally published in the Pretoria News, 12 July 2008.)
It is a sad truth of politics that revolutionary movements, no matter how noble their intentions, become bad governments. This is partially because the business of revolution demands secrecy, hierarchy, and charismatic leadership, all of which tend to survive long after they [...]
Iraq has turned that now-infamous ‘corner’. For the second month running, casualties in Iraq have been less than that of Operation Enduring Freedom’s, strongly highlighting how the country is finally on the road to peace. The surge has worked, Iraqis; Shia, Sunni and Kurd alike all have an incredibly promising future ahead of them without [...]
Readers of this site must surely know by now that I am definitively partisan in my views and opinions. I certainly make no pretence of my leaning. I thought now, virtually a year since I started writing for Commentary, I would tell you just how I became a curmudgeonly old fart in my twenties.
Put simply, [...]
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[L]ocal viewpoints on local/international affairs. That they aren't brain-dead like most local self-confessed 'intellectuals' is a bonus.
- Fifteen Minutes
[I'm] glad to report the arrival of a new blog written by a couple of 'conservative-libertarian' South Africans. Commentary is both well written and prolific and very much worth a visit.
- Southern Cross
[A] great new South African blog. Commentary.co.za brings us libertarian views on South Africa...
- Way South
Probably the busiest (in terms of number of postings) blog is Commentary... They write on everything from politics, sport, time travel and more.
- Fodder
Commentary.co.za is a fantastically well-written site with an indepth insight into South African politics. If you want the lowdown on what's happening in the corridors of power, this is the place to read it. These guys know their stuff.
- Cherryflava
Pompous, geeky and holier-than-thou.
- Gabbahead
