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What the FMD Crisis Reveals
The foot-and-mouth crisis affecting bovine herds reveals two realities that would not have been the case before 1994. The first concerns the demise of Onderstepoort. Once a world-class facility in veterinary research and medications, due to loss of technical expertise (read: through emigration), mismanagement and corruption, it is now in a state of dysfunction. Despite
Trump Deserves Credit for Ending Khamenei’s Tyranny
Examples of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) are on full display now that the conflict in Iran is the hot news issue. Thyagaraj Markandan (The Mercury, March 4) provides a thorough account of how TDS determines his perceptions on the subject. TDS # one: “Iran had not attacked the US or posed any imminent threat.” Chief US
Mercury’s Case for More BEE Is a Non-Starter
The Mercury’s (March 3) fervent appeal for perpetuating BEE is based on the very ideology it has always renounced, namely, racial discrimination, ironically, in the belief that undoing racial discrimination can be achieved by promoting more of it. There is only one way of promoting fairness and that is by applying merit to all decisions.
SACP Statements Are Self-Contradictory
Although press statements by the SA Communist Party are unworthy of comment, the letter by the SACP’s head of communication (The Mercury, March 2) is particularly amusing because of its obvious self-contradiction. In eleven instances in its statement, the SACP condemns the ‘imperialism’ of the US-Israeli military action in Iran. That is ironic because communists
Democrats Are Un-American Globalists
‘Seeing is believing,’ which is why optics are so persuasive and revealing. The outright refusal of the Democrats to stand up in support of President Trump’s statement that the first duty of government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens, should leave no one in doubt as to what the Democrat party has become
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