Is the DA (still) a liberal party?
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 are the three “new” foundational values that the DA will be selling you in the weeks, months and maybe years ahead. It is all contained in a draft values document ahead of the party’s elective conference next month.
Forget about the ANC self-correcting
Political power is so addictive that younger ANC leaders are mimicking their elders to ensure self-preservation, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Odious strands in our public debate
Criticism of students’ ideas without engagement is disheartening, writes Eusebius McKaiser
The hubris of Jacob Zuma
SA’s democracy will be under enormous pressure for as long as the ANC refuses to renew or re-invent itself, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Eusebius McKaiser: Moral limits on free speech
Advocates of complete freedom fail to take adequate account of the consequences involved, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Mantashe's motives are suspect
The ANC showed no appetite for electoral reform while it enjoyed the support of most of the voters, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Beware the urge to scapegoat Zuma
He is but a product of the party, and thus it should be embarrassed about what transpired in the elections
I’ve decided who I’m voting for
This time I won't be endorsing a party's policy position, instead I've opted to take a practical approach, writes Eusebius McKaiser
SABC concedes its editorial policy is wrong. What next?
While the HSF interdict is a victory for democracy, the SABC still has other cases currently underway, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Limits to lawfare in fixing SABC
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.
SABC, like the ANC, needs a complete overhaul
The limits of lawfare as a way of fixing the public broadcaster must be understood, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
It’s high time to decolonise Afrikaans
Freeing the language from its straitjacket would make it easier for all to be more comfortable with it, writes Eusebius McKaiser
Moral panic of firms isn’t enough
Simply ticking off a box that says 'diversity training' is not going to break long-standing institutional habits of discrimination
Gimmicky diversity workshops not enough
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 environments.
Epistemic Injustices: the dark side of academic freedom
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 2016.
Artistic criticism isn’t censorship
There is a difference between the artistic and moral engagement with a work of art and asking an artist to self-censor.
We must make sense of our madness
It’s easier to condemn violence than to ask why violence takes place, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Get to root of violence – don't condemn
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 like libraries, auditoriums, schools and universities.
Racists benefit from false ‘complexity’
Racists can be hard to spot when they mimic the same range of human interactions as anti-racists, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
The k-word leaves no room for doubt
Apologies for racism are now as popular as racism itself, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Men, not the courts, must end rape culture
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society, writes Eusebius McKaiser.
Macho language’s rape culture role
The criminal justice system will never be the best way to end the rape culture embedded in our society.
Skeletons can’t be ignored
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 McKaiser.
ANC skeletons can’t just be ignored
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.
Watch out for Trump-like politicians
A politician who lies isn’t the worst of the lot, writes Eusebius McKaiser.