The failure of the eThekwini Council to hold its scheduled monthly meeting because of haggling within the ruling coalition as to who should be appointed deputy mayor illustrates exactly where the priorities of certain elements of this Council lie...
Not surprisingly the AFP report on the departure of Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s prime minister conveys the image of a superstar leaving the stage (The Mercury, January 26). Nothing could be further from the truth as the 40-metre length...
Permanent load-shedding, Eskom’s demand for an 18,65% tariff increase and the total absence of any coherent plan to remedy the electricity supply crisis constitute a hydra-headed threat far worse than the so-called Covid pandemic. It is...
News from Davos that the elites at the WEF meeting regard Africa as “ripe for business creation, integration and expansion” should be regarded with scepticism and concern, particularly as their objective is “transition to a new single market”...
Since 2016, Trump’s involvement in political power has been viewed by his opponents as a threat to democracy. In the days preceding the US mid-term elections, the narrative chorused by the mass media and Democratic Party leaders was that votes...
Right on cue, the mass media is extolling the agenda of the 2023 gathering at Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF) with its slogan “cooperation in a fragmented world” (The Mercury, January 13). But there is much that is deceptive about that...
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