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Revisiting the 1992 Referendum and Its Consequences
Whereas the passage of time has a tendency to encrust the past with a general historical narrative, it also stimulates critical revision. The significance of the 1992 referendum, its mandate and its consequences provide a case in point. Historically, that referendum is regarded as having provided a mandate to negotiate a democratic constitutional order. But
Events Counter Negative Trump Narratives
The mainstream media’s success in promoting its negative narrative about anything and everything President Trump does is well exemplified by those who refuse to diversify their media diet. But the pace of events is countering those narratives. Maligning Trump for bullying Iran is not just naive. It is inexcusable stupidity when the reality is that
Trump and Mantashe on Affordable Energy
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but that is what connects President Trump and Minister Gwede Mantashe. They both recognize that petroleum security is national security (Business Report, September 16). For what the Reserve Bank calculates as an added cost of R76 billion over the past four years to our trade imbalance for having to import refined
Appreciating Those Whose Legacy Is Our Heritage
Heritage Day should be more than an opportunity to have another braai. It should be an occasion to at least spare a thought for those who came before us and whose legacy is our heritage. So let’s turn the clock back 177 years to 1849, when the first parties of the organized Byrne settlement scheme
EFF Ideology Cannot Reverse Durban’s Decline
Without being specific, the EFF mayoral candidate for eThekwini, Hlengiwe Mkhaliphi, manages to tiptoe around the real causes of what ails eThekwini municipality in his otherwise comprehensive survey (The Mercury, September 11). Rightly, he points out that critics mistake the symptoms of the rot for the disease. His outline of the symptoms points unambiguously to
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