Changing its leader won’t change the UK’s Brexit chaos

What will the Conservative Party get in return for dumping yet another leader over Europe? Catharsis, perhaps

‘Reclaim our civic dialogue from those who are debasing and degrading it’

An adaptation by Michael Bloomberg of his address to Washington University in St Louis’s class of 2019

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THE LEX COLUMN: Trump’s trade-talks tweets are too much too soon

Markets confounded by Trump’s tweets on US-China trade talks, after weeks of optimistic guidance from both sides

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GENEVIEVE QUINTAL: Frustration rather than apathy behind low turnout

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BRYAN ROSTRON: On the road’s white lines, the DA risks getting run over

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CHRIS THURMAN: Joburg and Cape Town not the only ones in the art race

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Decision to allow business to generate own electricity is a blast of fresh air

Opinion / Editorials
JONNY STEINBERG: Whites, beware: the machines, and black anger, are coming

Those advantages of the past will no longer be a buttress against the future

Opinion / Columnists
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Jonny Steinberg Columnist
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High-equity unit trusts remain popular for their healthy returns, but low-equity investments look rather pedestrian over 20 years

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KEVIN MCCALLUM: Glorious win, but Man City must still face a reckoning

The team and their fans knew the Uefa probe was not going away after allegations that millions of pounds in ‘sponsorship’ were a façade

Sport / Soccer
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Safi Bahcall explores the science behind phase transitions and the influences that shape human behaviour

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New US sanctions are set to wallop technology manufacturing companies

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The Carbon Tax Bill will cut emissions in SA from June

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Opinion
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Opinion
LETTER: Bruce is an appeaser

His latest columns have smacked of cheap propaganda

Opinion / Letters
LETTER: Solar is a no-brainer

Energy ministry’s decision to allow unregulated small-scale use is a welcome development

Opinion / Letters
LETTER: The right to resist vs the right to exist

Israel also has a right to resist aggression

Opinion / Letters
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