Mass civil disobedience over e-tolls could sink the ship
Despite the recent Supreme Court of Appeal victory for government over its plans to introduce e-tolls, the matter seems likely to go before the Constitutional […]
Articles by Ciaran Ryan
South Africa’s silent revolution
In 1990 John Kane-Berman of the SA Institute of Race Relations wrote a book called The Silent Revolution in which he detailed the extent to which apartheid […]
The surveillance state is fighting for its life
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has criticised NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden for “misuse” of government data. Excuse me? What about the galactic-scale misuse of private data by […]
My brush with black magic
“Do you believe in black magic?” asked Tinus, a well-educated Ghanaian who has travelled abroad and now worked as an accountant for one of the […]
Riot alert: look out Argentina, South Africa, Turkey and India
If history teaches us anything, it is that inflation usually ends in violence. The Johannesburg-based economic research house ETM Analytics, which has a strong Austrian […]
Proof that inflation leads to violence
NEW research appears to show a direct link between inflation and South Africa’s social violence. In the months before the Marikana massacre, in which more […]
Apartheid’s social engineers are still among us
More than 20 years have passed since Nelson Mandela was released from prison, yet many – if not most – South Africans still labour under […]
Szasz and the myth of mental illness
In 1961, the late, great Thomas Szasz wrote a book called The Myth of Mental Illness. He followed this classic with several more, notably The […]
Kwame’s incredible tale of survival at sea
I remember the day I found out that Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s former leader, had been killed. I was in the Bosua Beach Hotel in southern […]
Rape and retribution in West Africa
While working in West Africa earlier this year I met a rapist. Actually, I employed him in the company I was running in the […]