According to all the US mainstream media, the only issue on the ballot paper in Tuesday’s elections is the future of democracy in America. And they are correct, but for the wrong reasons. When Biden denounces the Republicans as “a...
Wherever the term “narrative” is applied, it is intended to stifle divergent discussion of critical issues. But if those who adhere to “the narrative” would link it to the agenda of its proponents, they would discern motives that have everything...
Contrary to Billie Prinsloo’s view (The Mercury, October 24), the attainment of a state ‘when all things are equal’ defies reality because the only equality that exists is equality in the eyes of God and, ostensibly, before the law. Nature knows...
It is disappointing to note that Thyagaraj Markandan, whose contributions to these columns are invariably well-informed, appears to have been drawn into the false narrative that belching bovines are contributing to global warming and consequently...
Twenty years ago the staple of opposition politics was floor crossing. Now it is party swapping, former DA KZN leader Zwakele Mncwango being the current case in point. Although The Mercury (October 18) provided a generous amount of space for...
Dis-Chem’s dilemma over demographic employment ratios because of the dictates of the Employment Equity Act highlights the absolute farce of adherence to the principle of non-racialism (The Mercury, October 18). Before 1994, the National Party...
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