Ismail Lagardien Afrikaners are ‘plesierig’, nevermind the nostalgia of those who wear the masks of meritocracy 6 min 6 12 November 2025
Ismail Lagardien A type of perceptual narrowing shapes the DA’s policies and approach to politics 4 min 5 2 November 2025
Ismail Lagardien Health and safety standards the missing link in road accidents and food poisoning 5 min 0 24 October 2025
Ismail Lagardien Marvel at skyscrapers and forget the spatial legacies of forced dislocation 5 min 2 17 October 2025
Ismail Lagardien SA still needs the ANC and its Tripartite Alliance, warts and all 6 min 8 10 October 2025
Ismail Lagardien South Africa remains a safe place for religious beliefs and practices 5 min 6 3 October 2025
Ismail Lagardien The Great Stink is piling hurt upon hurt across Joburg’s Western Areas 5 min 0 19 September 2025
Ismail Lagardien The proliferation of political parties diffuses power and makes a mockery of ‘the black voice’ 5 min 2 22 September 2025
Ismail Lagardien A dead state, a failing machine and a desperate need for visionary leadership 5 min 6 12 September 2025
Ismail Lagardien Trigger words and distractions frame discussions in this era of moral rupture 4 min 1 5 September 2025
Ismail Lagardien Gangster capitalism and its attendant warlords rule SA’s taxi industry 5 min 1 28 August 2025
Ismail Lagardien We were wrong and naïve at the dawn of democracy, and perhaps we’re still wrong 5 min 4 22 August 2025
Ismail Lagardien The National Dialogue is going nowhere fast, and that’s a great pity 4 min 2 15 August 2025
Ismail Lagardien Pieter-Louis Myburgh’s exposé of (yet another case of) corruption deserves a monument 5 min 8 7 August 2025
Ismail Lagardien From Epstein to empire: The historical continuity of men buying and selling the bodies of women and young girls 6 min 11 1 August 2025
Ismail Lagardien The pernicious association of coups d’etat as somehow unique to Africa 6 min 0 24 July 2025
Ismail Lagardien More decolonisation may be necessary to fully liberate us from the reveries of Empire 5 min 1 17 July 2025
Ismail Lagardien The DA remains wedded to the National Party’s playbook of 1994 and 1996 5 min 18 10 July 2025
Ismail Lagardien From the Archives - Criminocracies: The state of the state and criminal activity 5 min 1 9 July 2025
Ismail Lagardien Conspiracy theories simply ignore history – and inconvenient facts 5 min 11 2 July 2025
Ismail Lagardien Criticism of the National Dialogue is necessary, but too heavily reliant on magic and myths 5 min 3 26 June 2025
