Lorenzo A Davids

I fear to think what’s happening to the underground sewerage systems in the CBD. The garbage is piling up on every corner. Public toilets are any open spot, wherever …

Every day, two children are murdered in the Western Cape, a grim reality that reflects systemic failures in policing and community safety. This article explores … Your job as a voter is to stop giving away your government to the richest bidder.

Not every piece of technology is your friend. Foreign aid is often wrapped up in ideological strangleholds. It has an ownership expectation that extends way beyond the value of the aid.

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‘My wish for 2025 is to end the power of privilege. Everywhere around us, we see structural and psychological privilege forced in our faces. ’ ‘The year ends with a crisp summary: South Africans are gatvol of whiny, daft, disruptive and doomsday politicians.

We have begun to win the battle over the voices … ‘Look at the Cape Flats, a landscape filled with religious structures, human potential and aid organisations. Yet any predictive data will tell you that its status …

‘With the latest statistics released by the Department of Police and the Western Cape’s Department of Police Oversight and Community Safety, no child is safe in … COLUMN: ‘The rising discomfort of the things we are not saying is seen in the practice of the politics of disdain in South Africa,’ writes Lorenzo A Davids. ‘Global politics has moved beyond the idea that traditional democracies are the place of sensible politics.

It has aggressively moved towards a conservative nationalism, … Lorenzo A Davids writes that the land of the free and the home of the brave is no more. Overrun by the delusional and fearful, it has sold its soul to megalomaniacs …

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