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Ofentse Donald Davhie: "Non-alignment that produces a Memorial on Gaza and an abstention on Ukraine is bloc allegiance by another name, with the allegiance running to Moscow." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/22…

Selective non-alignment: Pretoria must change its Russia policy  - Daily Friend

Writing in the Daily Maverick in September 2025, International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola set out the clearest official statement of what non-alignment is meant to be. It is “not anti-West or...

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Steven Boykey Sidley: "Organoids bridge the gap by offering human-specific biological testing environments from day one, replacing predictive animal models with real human tissue responses." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/22…

A path to the end of animal testing in drug discovery? - Daily Friend

I recently wrote a column about the impact that AI is already having on drug discovery, particularly in the early part of the process where researchers try to find a molecular “key” that fits a...

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Martin van Staden: "Liberalism cannot and does not pick and choose which minorities may validly stand in line to have their liberty respected – but liberals routinely do so." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/22…

When did liberals stop caring about minorities?  - Daily Friend

Ivo Vegter has written three pieces about me, my colleagues at the Free Market Foundation (FMF), and the perfectly innocuous and highly liberal-coded White Cross Project in the United States that we...

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Jonathan Katzenellenbogen: "Deep European political divisions and economic problems play right into the hands of Vladimir Putin, who is endlessly attempting to test European resolve." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/21…

The consequences of Paris 2026 - Daily Friend

Paris could become the spark that gives further fuel to clashes with police across Europe and what the right sees as the battle for the West.

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Chris Hattingh: "To be credible – and useable – non-alignment means that no single partner decides who comes to Simon’s Town." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/21…

A friendly frigate and a lesson in choosing partners  - Daily Friend

On Monday 19 October I stood on the deck of INS Tarkash in False Bay as the ship’s Chetak helicopter hovered overhead. Brazil’s BrNS Barroso steamed nearby, and South Africa’s submarine SAS Manthat...

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Michael Morris: "Good or bad ideas must be openly judged to be good or bad, an appraisal that’s only possible if there is a contest that we can all judge for ourselves. Anything less delivers only a 'fugitive and cloister’d vertue'." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/21…

UCT and free speech: the cost of punishing ideas - Daily Friend

The deepest irony in the efforts by some interests at the University of Cape Town to punish UCT Council members Mark Oppenheimer and David Ansara

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Ivo Vegter: "Shared infrastructure does not require state ownership. It merely requires rules that keep access open." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/20…

Open the payments system, don’t nationalise it - Daily Friend

The Reserve Bank wants to open South Africa’s payment and cash systems to new competitors. Then it wants to own them.

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Paul Hoffman: "The strongest shield and safeguard for all, especially for the masses against tyrants, is mistrust of those in power. If you value liberty then guard that mistrust, hold fast to it." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/20…

Let vigilance be your watchword - Daily Friend

Demosthenes was an Athenian statesman and orator. He lived from 380 to 322 BC and his bust is preserved in the Louvre in Paris. The following is attributed to him and may have inspired St Paul in...

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Chris Patterson: "Foreigners are not taking South African jobs. There aren’t enough jobs being created, and that is due to a highly restricted economy that comes because of decades of ANC anti-growth policy." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/20…

ANC blames foreigners for SA’s jobs disaster  - Daily Friend

Government is pointing the finger at foreigners instead of taking the decisions to boost job creation. It has introduced the Employment Services Amendment Bill into Parliament that seeks to regulate...

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Makone Maja: " BEE has corruption embedded into it as a feature rather than a bug, and corruption is the ultimate fate of any policy and institution that forfeits meritocracy." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/19…

Minister Ntshavheni, is BEE of national interest or ANC patronage networks’ interest?  - Daily...

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni recently defended South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy against the United States’ criticism. The Minister was responding to questions...

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Simon Lincoln Reader: "Ngobese-Zuma did not appear in a vacuum... She is an expression of something nobody cares about, let alone bothers to explore. Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/19…

Seeing Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma through dystopian French literature - Daily Friend

In September 2015, not three weeks after Germany temporarily suspended the Dublin Regulation for Syrian asylum seekers that would eventually see between 890,000 and 1.1m people added to that countr...

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Shawn Hagedorn: "Heavy US commitments have led to its allies failing to develop meaningful military deterrence." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/19…

How reliable an ally is the US? - Daily Friend

Biased reporting underplays global shifts and the US’s core interests.

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Barry D. Wood: "When a country’s debt service exceeds its spending on defense, that nation is in decline. In 2024, for the first time in modern history, debt service in the US exceeded its defense budget." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/18…

Fragility in US Financial Markets? - Daily Friend

On the surface all is good.  Growth is solid, the dollar strong. The economy is running at full employment, having matched a 1960s record with the jobless rate below 5% for 61 consecutive months. ...

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Iqbal Jassat: "By honouring Navi Pillay, the world community reaffirms that accountability is non-negotiable and that universal human rights must be defended without fear or favor." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/18…

Pillay’s prize: monumental victory for law, human rights and rules-based order - Daily Friend

At 85 years old, the eminent South African jurist represents the absolute pinnacle of legal integrity – a career forged in the crucible of the

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Marika Sboros: "The last thing this prize will do is promote the cause of peace." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/18…

Pillay, peace and the prize - Daily Friend

Navanethem “Navi” Pillay was at a conference in Courtroom 600 of Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice when it was announced that she had won the 2026

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Peter Swanepoel: "An illustrious past is not a substitute for scrutiny of the present." Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/10/17…

Navi Pillay's Nobel Prize and the question of impartiality - Daily Friend

Navi Pillay's contribution to international justice deserves recognition. But the Nobel Committee's praise for her independence invites closer examination of the UN commission she chaired.

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