22 January 2024
Mike Berger writes on what the war in Gaza means for the world and us
21 November 2023
Signatories say they abhor use of collective punishment, and IDF's response to Hamas' pogrom dramatically disproportionate
16 August 2023
Mike Berger writes on GHL's handling of his first great crisis as Cape Town mayor
10 July 2023
Mike Berger reflects on the opportunity offered up by the passing of one-party dominance
03 July 2023
Mike Berger reviews the former Eskom CEO's memoir "Truth to Power"
20 June 2023
Mike Berger presents five practical suggestions as to what should be done
19 June 2023
Mike Berger says the DA should avoid falling into a safety first trap
05 June 2023
Mike Berger writes on the global tides on which South Africa is currently drifting
29 May 2023
Mike Berger says the road to redemption is unusually tortuous and potholed
22 May 2023
Mike Berger says that from AI to climate to culture to innovation, strict determinism no longer has the starring role
14 May 2023
Mike Berger writes on Jacques Pauw's expose of the dodgy Eskom dossier
08 May 2023
Mike Berger says the party needs to adapt classical model of liberal democracy to local conditions
25 April 2023
The NPA has brought disgrace to itself and the whole judicial system, writes ARETA President
29 November 2022
Tony Leon speaks on key examples from South Africa and Israel
25 September 2022
Court finds that interim interdict the only appropriate remedy that could be granted to protect respondents’ rights
28 July 2022
Mike Berger writes on "consciousness" or how the world shapes our minds and determines our politics
07 July 2022
Mike Berger writes on survival and mortality in politics
05 October 2021
Melanie Buys says more than 400 of 2 034 schools in Gauteng have been badly vandalised since March 2020
07 May 2021
Mike Berger says we are not "two nations", but something far more complex than that
25 April 2021
Mike Berker writes on the clash in North America between archeology and "social justice"
23 March 2021
Mike Berger writes on how the opposition can revitalise the spirit of reform in SA
15 March 2021
Mike Berger says the DA has become too transactional rather than transformative in its new incarnation
07 March 2021
Mike Berger writes on the DA's difficulty in challenging the ANC, despite far outperforming it in govt
13 January 2021
Mike Berger writes on how to arrest the steady drift towards total breakdown of SA
21 October 2020
Mike Berger writes on how countries can escape the fate apparently decreed for them
14 September 2020
Mike Berger writes on the Fighters' thuggish response to the Clicks advert
26 August 2020
Mike Berger writes on reviving the promise of South Africa as a successful multi-racial democracy
19 August 2020
Mike Berger analyses our situation through a causes of state instability model
06 August 2020
Hendrik Mentz writes on Jung, the cult of purity, and post-apartheid SA
27 July 2020
Mike Berger reviews the Australian television drama series
10 July 2020
Mike Berger says the woke movement is a sign and a cause of profound socio-political change
25 June 2020
Mike Berger writes on the political revolution sweeping across the West
20 April 2020
Mike Berger writes on how the pandemic affects us across multiple dimensions
09 April 2020
Mike Berger says the cards are stacked against success
03 October 2019
Mike Berger reflects on the DA and liberal democracy, in the post-election aftermath
05 August 2019
SANEF and five journalists take Fighters to court over threats and intimidation
25 April 2019
Melanie Buys says that incompetent educators in the system should be fired
23 April 2019
Mike Berger on why voting DA is the only realistic option
10 April 2019
UDM leader accused of defaming Lebashe Investment Group and others
08 April 2019
Mike Berger says the electorate needs to say "no" both to the ANC and its extremist offshoots
12 March 2019
Mike Berger writes that politics is still mainly played according to the old rules of our species
13 December 2018
Mike Berger says the country is in a bad, bad state
15 November 2018
Mike Berger on what needs to be done in the face of formidable obstacles
07 November 2018
Mike Berger writes that humans are so attuned to threat and grievance the easiest politics is 'narrow tribal'
31 October 2018
Phephelaphi Dube writes on the legal and ethical implications of a newspaper revealing sources
24 October 2018
Mike Berger elaborates on that particular quality that great leaders, good and bad, possess
21 October 2018
Mike Berger writes on the thing that is missing from the opposition party's platform
19 September 2018
Mike Berger writes on the alternative to the 'jumping off the cliff' option before us
30 August 2018
Mike Berger says residents of this habitat in SA have the most to lose
22 August 2018
Mike Berger says there's a growing recognition that identity politics is incompatible with adaptive democratic societies
02 August 2018
Mike Berger says in conditions of high uncertainty, high risk and uncertain information we stick with our "own"
25 July 2018
Mike Berger writes on the relevance of John Teehan's book 'In the Name of God'
18 July 2018
Mike Berger writes on whether we have it in ourselves to escape our current predicament
10 July 2018
Mike Berger on whether South Africa can once again avoid tumbling into the abyss
03 July 2018
Mike Berger writes on the neopatrimonial road we're on
28 June 2018
Mike Berger writes on David Reich's book "Who we are and how we got here..."
14 June 2018
Mike Berger writes on the current debate on some of the most controversial issues in the field
07 June 2018
Mike Berger writes on the evolving science of intelligence
31 May 2018
Mike Berger says biology and history, along with mathematics and other disciplines, are merging into a new integrated picture of humanity
23 May 2018
Mike Berger on the beginnings of the human story
16 May 2018
Mike Berger explains the intention behind his new regular column
20 April 2018
And four other of the top stories on Alec Hogg's business news website, 20 April 2018
13 April 2018
Mike Berger asks whether the African-European hybrid of SA can break with the worst habits of both continents
03 April 2018
Mike Berger says the official opposition will never be able to outbid the ANC or EFF when it comes to racialised politics
23 March 2018
Mike Berger says that once certain modes of political cognition take hold they foreclose possibility of peaceful change
28 February 2018
Mike Berger says the ANC is allying itself with a political philosophy which is alien to the SA spirit
17 February 2018
Mike Berger says the music was good, but there were some jarring notes
15 February 2018
Mike Berger writes on SA today in the context of a six million year causal chain in mankind's development
31 January 2018
Mike Berger says the DA will need to up its game, even if Ramaphosa disappoints
24 January 2018
Mike Berger says we should not assume the deep corruption within the ANC has been vanquished
27 December 2017
Mike Berger says a Ramaphosa 'get out of jail free' card is not going to cut it if we continue on our current political trajectory
04 December 2017
Suspended Gauteng Health Department Head will have to comply with subpoena to testify
08 November 2017
Former ANC DP says that given the historical exigencies of our state, inequality shapes power, privilege and agency
27 September 2017
Mike Berger responds to the comments on his piece on the Israel academic boycott movement
21 September 2017
Mike Berger says the university is harming itself by even contemplating this demand
01 September 2017
NPA says those hanged for their role in reign of terror paid ultimate price for democracy
04 July 2017
Mike Berger writes on what the DA needs to do to help SA avoid this outcome
08 June 2017
Mike Berger notes that certain of the WCape Premier's loudest critics are also proud beneficiaries of that which they claim to abhor
05 June 2017
Mike Berger analyses the political parasitism that has this country in its grip
26 May 2017
Media24 management responding to commercial and political pressure to suppress critical voices in SA media
03 May 2017
Mike Berger writes on the bullying and intolerance that has come to characterise public debate
14 April 2017
Mike Berger reviews Sebastian Junger's book 'Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging'
27 March 2017
Mike Berger says Helen Zille is the latest target of a creeping tyranny
15 February 2017
Mike Berger says the US President is a symptom of the disease, not a cause of it
02 February 2017
Mike Berger says history has chosen a crass, vulgar and predatory figure to reverse elitist hegemony and hypocrisy
29 December 2016
Mike Berger on what needs to be done to break our descent towards social breakdown
11 December 2016
Mike Berger says South Africa is a triumph of human will over the disintegrative forces of human nature
14 November 2016
Mike Berger on the mainstream media's responsibility for the GOP candidate's upset victory in the US presidential elections
01 November 2016
Mike Berger on Fanon and the Fallists, and some other issues lost in the partisan passions of the moment
20 October 2016
Mike Berger questions the confused, submissive response by our 'thought leaders' to this outbreak of racial fanaticism
10 October 2016
Mike Berger says our progressives are deluding themselves about the true nature of the movement
03 October 2016
Mike Berger says Max Price & Co. have bought into the Pandora's box of grievances, only to find that these are infinite
27 September 2016
Mike Berger says that what has been happening has little to do with the ostensible reasons being given
22 September 2016
Mike Berger says it is time for zero tolerance towards protests which overstep normative and legal boundaries
30 August 2016
Mike Berger says the Springboks have become a national embarrassment
02 August 2016
Mike Berger says the obvious flaws of the Republican candidate should not obscure the failings of the American press
28 June 2016
Mike Berger says we are lagging far behind the state many ANC activists love to hate
05 May 2016
Moneyweb editor Ryk van Niekerk says ruling against the one story shows that there is copyright in news
04 May 2016
Burger J finds a single case of copyright infringement, applicant ordered to pay 70% of respondents' costs
22 October 2015
Mike Berger says Israel is confronted and threatened by a nihilistic Islamist culture