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Iran: down, but not yet out

5 days ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Greg Mills |Ray Hartley

Boot and Ajax. These are the codenames of the respective UK and US operations that overthrew the Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953. But this effort did not achieve its key objectives: to strengthen the rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and to safeguard British oil interests. So began a period of instability for Iranian democracy and society.
What does Grok know about murder in South Africa?

1 week ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

An image circulating on social media claims that at least 20 times as many people have been murdered in South Africa since 1994 than during apartheid. An interesting factoid crossed my social media feed recently:The point of the message seems clear: South Africa was an order of magnitude safer under apartheid than it has been since the ANC won the first democratic elections in 1994. This is proof the ANC is bad.
Do we want solutions or perpetual conflict?

1 week ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Terence Corrigan

Terence Corrigan is the Project Manager at the Institute, where he specialises in work on property rights, as well as land and mining policy. A native of KwaZulu-Natal, he is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg). He has held various positions at the IRR, South African Institute of International Affairs, SBP (formerly the Small Business Project) and the Gauteng Legislature – as well as having taught English in Taiwan.
Ramaphosa will talk this country to death

2 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a National Dialogue, starting with a National Convention in August. Talk is not what this country needs. If there’s one person who is all talk an no action, it’s Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa. That was a useful skill when he was a unionist. That was a useful skill when he was a negotiator to establish a new democratic dispensation and avoid a civil war. That was clearly a useful skill when he negotiated plum black empowerment positions that made him a billionaire.
Jo’burg: the DA’s Operation Market Garden?

2 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Nicholas Lorimer

Nicholas Lorimer, a politician-turned-think tank thinker, is the IRR's Geopolitics Researcher and is host of the Daily Friend Show. His interests include geopolitics, and history (particularly medieval and ancient history). He is an unashamed Americaphile, whether it be food, culture or film. His other pursuits include video games and armchair critique of action films from the 1980s.
Hard lessons from DOGE’s failure

2 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

In principle, a Department of Government Efficiency sounds like a great idea. In practice, it isn’t so simple. When Donald Trump appointed former first buddy Elon Musk to head up a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), observers of a classically liberal persuasion – meaning they support free markets under limited government – were excited.
Forget the refugees; they’re a distraction

2 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Terence Corrigan

Terence Corrigan is the Project Manager at the Institute, where he specialises in work on property rights, as well as land and mining policy. A native of KwaZulu-Natal, he is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg). He has held various positions at the IRR, South African Institute of International Affairs, SBP (formerly the Small Business Project) and the Gauteng Legislature – as well as having taught English in Taiwan.
Pride and Prejudice Month

3 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

In another step on the road to Gilead, Republicans have introduced a Bill declaring June to be “Family Month”, instead of “Pride Month”. For someone who claims to know nothing about Project 2025, Donald Trump and the Republican Party he represents sure follow it quite closely. On the day he took office, Trump presumed to decree “biological truth”: “It is the policy of the United States to recognise two sexes, male and female.
The victimhood complex of MAGA men

3 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Ivo Vegter

A white reporter from America who travelled to South Africa to investigate claims of genocide was cruelly mistreated upon boarding his aeroplane. The political right has long criticised the “woke” left, quite fairly, over what has become known as the “victim Olympics”. It criticises a perceived victimhood mentality that ascribes social status to the degree of oppression to which one is supposedly subject, by virtue of one’s membership of one or more marginalised groupings.
A “small, minority party”, with an outsized influence

3 weeks ago | dailyfriend.co.za | Terence Corrigan

Terence Corrigan is the Project Manager at the Institute, where he specialises in work on property rights, as well as land and mining policy. A native of KwaZulu-Natal, he is a graduate of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg). He has held various positions at the IRR, South African Institute of International Affairs, SBP (formerly the Small Business Project) and the Gauteng Legislature – as well as having taught English in Taiwan.