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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
Globalists Reaping the Insanity of Their Policies
The chorus of condemnation and denigration of the international media regarding the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party’s significant performance in the Saxony-Anhalt state election is a clear indicator of the extent to which globalist group-think prevails. It is a sad commentary that groupthink dissents from the globalist policy of absorbing mostly illegal, foreign immigrants who
Westpoint Lodge Eyesore: A Result Of Bureaucratic Paralysis
The despicable eyesore called Westpoint Lodge on the Esplanade, Durban, is a fitting example of bureaucratic paralysis (The Mercury, September 7). Its illegal occupation breaks bylaws, which would see legal property owners prosecuted, yet for more than 10 years, those breaches have been tolerated. Westpoint violates laws on health issues, fire risk and prevention, electricity usage,
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