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Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

Waving wads of cash as inducement to sell homes and heritage in the Bo-Kaap

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

Vision 2030 in focus: The National Development Plan’s aspirations and harsh realities ahead

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

Afrikaner refugees may be too embarrassed to admit they had it good in South Africa

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

We must look to South Africa’s past to understand the lawlessness and violence of today

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was never about justice

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

Anger has been removed from how we respond to the world around us

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

Beyond the lens: The normalisation of horror in Sudanese war imagery

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

When ‘comment is free, but facts are sacred’ becomes ‘the best journalism that money can buy’

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

Probing the deeper causes of Johannesburg as a decaying, runaway city

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

Johannesburg: The slow death of a city that may have outlived its purpose

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

We know more about the cosmos than we do about our oceans and ocean beds

By Ismail Lagardien

Ismail Lagardien

Opinionistas

The Old Volksraad Mense™ and their curious bromance with Trump amid fears of genocide

By Ismail Lagardien