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Daniël Eloff

Cape Town
As seen in: Flipboard, News24, BusinessLIVE, Business Day, The Critic Magazine (UK), Maroela Media, The Daily Friend, De Rebus
Covers:  Law Politics Philosophy History Economics
Elevating small talk to medium talk | Director at Hurter Spies Inc | Fellow @RoyalCWSociety | Member @iacl_aidc

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Daniël Eloff’s Biography

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Daniël is a legal advisor, writer, non-profit executive and commentator on South African constitutional issues, civil liberties, and geopolitics.

Daniël Eloff’s Journalist Portfolio

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Between two expropriation truths

Between two expropriation truths

Daniël Eloff says behind political double-talk lies a deeper philosophical conflict about the meaning of prop…

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Daniel Eloff: Public trust in political turbulence

Daniel Eloff: Public trust in political turbulence

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DANIËL ELOFF: Half-hearted privatisation is not a step forward

DANIËL ELOFF: Half-hearted privatisation is not a step forward

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Who pays for the ANC's failures? - Daily Friend

Who pays for the ANC's failures? - Daily Friend

South Africa's latest budget debate has exposed a fault line which has existed for decades-one that separates…

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South African policy romanticism - Daily Friend

South African policy romanticism - Daily Friend

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Bureaucratic Vogons - why SA needs a Doge

Bureaucratic Vogons - why SA needs a Doge

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Common sense more humane than compassion: Milei and Bukele and what the policy elite misses

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By Daniël Eloff
| The Daily Friend
There are few things more dangerous than a noble idea wrapped in good intentions that fails to match human reality. Albert Camus, the French philosopher and 1957 Nobel Prize winner for literature, observed that the apparent welfare of humanity is often the alibi of tyrants. French philosophers are often wrong about most things, but on this point Camus hit the mark. The intelligentsia and commentariat’s counterpart in government, academia and the NGO world is the elite policy class.
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Not exiles, but stayers

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By Daniël Eloff
| The Critic Magazine (UK) Verified
White South Africans are not abandoning their home Ryan Else’s Critic essay on white South Africans as “exiles from the Rainbow Nation” deserves reflection. It is true that many white South Africans, and Afrikaners in particular, feel politically estranged from the post-apartheid state. It is true that the ANC’s racial vocabulary, its fixation on “transformation”, and its astonishing indifference to state failure have created a deep reservoir of mistrust.
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Death by lawyers

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By Daniël Eloff
| The Critic Magazine (UK) Verified
How excessive legalism can ruin a political system Ninety-nine per cent of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name. This is particularly true of those who end up in politics. The problem with lawyers-turned-politicians is that they stop reading the law as a set of constraints and begin treating it as an invitation to interpretation aligned with political goals.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Rational Standard

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Danny Concannon from The West Wing
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