KZN ANC chairman Sihle Sikalala’s antics on the succession debate within the ANC (Daily News, May 15) are reminiscent of the joke that used to be told about democracy in the Soviet Union which recalled that a Kremlin burglary had revealed...
The editorial titled ‘We put our trust in you’ raises pertinent questions (Mercury, 11 May). The Mercury is not a national newspaper so Arthur Miller’s line of a ‘nation talking to itself’ does not apply in a strict...
The fawning praise given to an arsonist because he has now graduated from a tertiary institution can only be described as rank hypocrisy and a new low in our plummeting social standards (Mercury, May 10). Last October Bonginkosi Khanyile was...
Predictably the Reuters report carried in the Daily News on May 8 hailed the election of Emmanuel Macron in France and, in particular, the margin of his victory. But it is a significance that is misleading. While Macron’s 65% to Le...
In February 1982, the Steyn Commission of Inquiry into press freedom warned of the danger of corporate control of newspapers damaging diversity and fettering the information industry. Judge Steyn predicted that amalgamation within the media...
Regardless of the findings of the disciplinary inquiry into Helen Zille’s remarks concerning the legacies of colonialism, the outcomes for the DA can only be negative. If the inquiry finds Zille guilty of bringing the DA into disrepute...
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