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Ivo Vegter: "There are two ways to be wrong about artificial intelligence, and most people manage both at once. The first is to over-estimate it." #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #capabilities Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/12…

Don’t fear the machine. Fear those who want to govern it - Daily Friend

AI is the most consequential tool of our age. The greatest danger it poses is not what it will do to us, but what governments will do to save us.

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Simon Lincoln Reader: "Explaining his actions, Breslow claimed Bolt HR was “making problems that previously weren’t there”. I take that to mean that they were justifying their existence by creating the very issues they were supposed to address – and that’s some vintage gangster extortion right there, up with the likes of the Southern Poverty Law Centre or the South African state and its “genocide” rumour-milling." #Bolt #Culture #gangster Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/12…

Gutting firms of HR may save the future of work - Daily Friend

Ordinarily not predisposed to heaping upon praise on tech bros, I can’t help but think one of them has just revealed how to save the future of work. At a recent Fortune event, Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow...

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South Africa’s fat bloated government x.com/i/broadcasts/1yGBeeDlW…
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Anthea Jeffery: "... the PIE Act commonly bars the courts from ordering evictions unless municipalities or other organs of state provide “suitable alternative accommodation” to those who would otherwise be rendered homeless." #accomodation #eviction #propertyrights Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/11…

Will the PIE Amendment Bill solve land invasions? - Daily Friend

The government claims that an escalating crisis of property hijackings and unlawful land invasions – long encouraged by the PIE Act – will be curtailed by the PIE Amendment Bill, which creates a...

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Paul Hoffman: "So badly have the Hawks fared in their anti-corruption mandate that government, in desperation, created IDAC to both investigate and prosecute corruption as the type of specialist body that is, in law, required." #corruption #law #publicperception Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/11…

Public pressure can help bust corruption - Daily Friend

In the seminal case now known as Glenister Two, the Constitutional Court laid down that SA law requires “a body outside executive control” to deal with corruption effectively. The motivation for this...

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Martin van Staden: "Johannesburg, a metropolis whose population is comparable to that of Denmark, Norway, or New Zealand, cannot be rescued by defaulting to the same centralising, over-regulating, and cost-socialising habits that the African National Congress (ANC) used to produce its present collapsing condition." #Johannesburg #ANC #DemocraticAlliance Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/11…

A restrained DA does not have what it takes to fix Joburg  - Daily Friend

Last week in The Common Sense, David Ansara outlined what it would take to arrest Johannesburg’s accelerating collapse. 

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Economy growing, but is it enough? x.com/i/broadcasts/1vJpPPpAP…
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Jonathan Katzenellenbogen: "Ramaphosa’s leadership faltered when he failed to come up with a rapid and decisive response to the deepening immigration crisis a month ago." #immigrationSA #CyrilRamaphosa #ANC Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/10…

The promised crackdown on illegal immigration: A show of force, but that is all. - Daily Friend

On Sunday evening, when President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on illegal immigration, he had two tasks.

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Steven Boykey Sidley: "A war aim that mutates this freely is not a strategy. It is the absence of one. Another problem is that the war revealed the United States to be fighting on the wrong side of the cost curve." #IranWar‌ #Trump #UnitedStates Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/10…

The US War with Iran - it was supposed to be easier than this… - Daily Friend

There is a particular kind of hubris that afflicts powerful states on the eve of a war they expect to win quickly. It is the conviction that the enemy will behave according to the planner's model...

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Ivo Vegter: "Our country is, as he said, a product of migration. With the exception of the Khoi-San, all South Africans have a heritage born of migration. It is the reason for our diversity and our vibrancy." #ImmigrationSA #SouthAfrica #CyrilRamaphosa Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/10…

Ramaphosa’s forked tongue on immigration - Daily Friend

The president condemns xenophobic violence while validating the very falsehoods that fuel it. The mob he warns against is the mob his own party helped create.

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Malema’s dodgy cop ally x.com/i/broadcasts/1MKgNNyzL…

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Bullish much? @daviddtoons dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/09…
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Chris Patterson: "This is the real transformation South Africans want. Jobs. Not more BEE or employment equity. Not fake transformation." #unemployment #faketransformation #SouthAfrica Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/09…

No jobs: The dashed dreams resulting from a stalled economy  - Daily Friend

Watching a Bloomberg documentary on the Stilfontein mining disaster, I came to the realisation that these zama-zamas know full well the illegality of their actions, but to them the difference between...

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Mike Flax: "There are much more appropriate pieces of land that can be developed – land that does not require billions of rands spent on civil works just to ensure that flooding and other environmental issues are managed." #landvalue #development #CapeTown Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/09…

Proposed Pinelands development battle is not "about a golf course" - Daily Friend

There is a growing refrain emerging in the debate around the proposed development of the King David Mowbray Golf Club precinct in Cape Town: that opposition to the development is an attempt by a...

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John Endres: "Where we part company is on timing. Grootes treats the verdict as something we must wait for, to be delivered by future growth that may or may not arrive. But we don’t have to wait: Ramaphosa has been president for eight years. The numbers that matter are already available, and they do not flatter him." #economicgrowth #CyrilRamaphosa #SouthAfrica Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/08…

Stephen, we don’t need to wait for history to judge Ramaphosa’s reforms - Daily Friend

This piece, written in response to a recent article by Daily Maverick writer Stephen Grootes, was offered to, but declined by, the Daily Maverick.* Stephen Grootes is right that economic growth is...

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Terence Corrigan: "Liberal principles of individual freedom and constitutional governance would provide ideas for the envisaged organisation of the countries that would be created." #Liberal #governance #Politicalaction Read here: dailyfriend.co.za/2026/06/08…

Liberalism: in search of an idea – Part 2 - Daily Friend

As a driver of political action, liberalism manifested itself initially in demands for expanding liberties and constitutional governance, although not necessarily (indeed, not generally among...

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