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Glen Heneck

Glen Heneck is a Cape Town businessman and occasional social commentator. He holds law degrees from UCT and Cambridge and was an avid Charterist until the mid 1990s.

Latest Work

OPINIONISTA

11 July 2023

The AI bogey is much feared, but consider the levels of censorship we already accept

By Glen Heneck

4 min

OPINIONISTA

12 December 2022

South Africa set up for failure from the outset by untenable borders

By Glen Heneck

7 min

OPINIONISTA

9 May 2022

How Bankman-Fried’s charitable pledge can gain traction with the stupefyingly rich

By Glen Heneck

6 min

OPINIONISTA

2 September 2021

The homeless will always be with us — as will be the insecure, affluent, propertied classes and their detractors

By Glen Heneck

4 min

OPINIONISTA

3 June 2021

The latest bout of Middle East bloodletting evokes the inevitable ritual of intellectual hand-wringing

By Glen Heneck

4 min

OPINIONISTA

28 June 2020

Of all the things I missed badly during lockdown, sport was the worst

By Glen Heneck

4 min

OPINIONISTA

12 May 2020

Of babies, bathwater and capitalism: Let’s not throw out the bath

By Glen Heneck

6 min

OPINIONISTA

21 April 2020

Activism is a double-edged sword to be wielded with care

By Glen Heneck

4 min

OPINIONISTA

30 March 2020

The world after Covid-19 – redefining the global social compact

By Glen Heneck

6 min

OPINIONISTA

13 November 2019

We need to go beyond #ImStaying in this gigantic laboratory called South Africa

By Glen Heneck

3 min

OPINIONISTA

13 January 2019

The rhetoric of change denialists impedes progress in our country

By Glen Heneck

3 min

OPINIONISTA

12 November 2018

We all bear some responsibility for how the Zuma calamity played out

By Glen Heneck

5 min

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Latest Work

The AI bogey is much feared, but consider the levels of censorship we already accept

South Africa set up for failure from the outset by untenable borders

How Bankman-Fried’s charitable pledge can gain traction with the stupefyingly rich

The homeless will always be with us — as will be the insecure, affluent, propertied classes and their detractors

The latest bout of Middle East bloodletting evokes the inevitable ritual of intellectual hand-wringing

Of all the things I missed badly during lockdown, sport was the worst

Of babies, bathwater and capitalism: Let’s not throw out the bath

Activism is a double-edged sword to be wielded with care

The world after Covid-19 – redefining the global social compact

We need to go beyond #ImStaying in this gigantic laboratory called South Africa

The rhetoric of change denialists impedes progress in our country

We all bear some responsibility for how the Zuma calamity played out