In that, The Mercury features the words “racism stops with me” as part of its masthead, its failure to report a major victory against racism concerning Black First Land First (BLF) is disconcerting (July 16). An objection against the BLF’s...
Safety in schools is directly related to discipline mechanisms. Therefore, the plan to deploy so-called community safety volunteers in schools and to establish safe school committees in an attempt to combat violence in schools is ludicrous...
The flight of businesses from CBDs in the province as a result of rampant crime (Mercury, July 26) should be seen as an opportunity to reconfigure municipal boundaries. Economic decentralisation has long been the trend as far as shops and...
In exhorting voters to “turn South Africa around,” on one of its election posters the ANC conceded that the country is in need of a new direction. As a result, many voted in the hope that President Ramaphosa would honour that commitment. Sadly...
It is unfortunate that in recalling the significance of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Kiru Naidoo (Mercury, June 21) allows his anti-Trump prejudice to cloud his objectivity in perceiving the Big Brother role of the mainstream media...
One wonders who commissar Sihle Zikalala thinks he is deceiving when he defends Zindzi Mandela’s racist, anti-white remarks as being within her rights yet he simultaneously pleads for “reconciliation” on the land issue (Mercury, June 18). Not...
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