Interpreting failure as success seems to be an ability the likes of Shannon Ebrahim exhibit on a regular basis when writing about Africa’s post-colonial history. Her article eulogising Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia is a case in point (The...
The issue of whether or not to have the Covid vaccine needs to be seen in the context of certain realities which, in spite of Colin Mark’s views (The Mercury, June 14), should not be ignored. It is a fact that the various vaccines have not...
In a speech to Western diplomats on November 18, 1956, Soviet Communist boss Nikita Krushchev boasted that it would not be necessary for communism to invade the US because America would succumb to communism without a shot being fired. Sixty-five...
One of the features of life in South Africa since the implementation of the 1996 constitution is an acute awareness of rights and the establishment of chapter nine institutions such as the Human Rights Commission and the Office of the Public...
Given the uncritical coverage of the Biden Administration by the mass media, Jean Michel’s credulous account of the working of the Biden Administration (The Mercury, March 26) is not surprising. Claiming that Biden has replaced incompetence with...
Although the further lapse of time will place the Covid-19 experience in context, after one year it surely is time to consider the worth of certain Covid-related measures that have been made mandatory and to declare that masks must fall. The...
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