Promotion of ideas and policies by sources regarded as reputable invariably expedites acceptance. Minister of Home Affairs Leon Schreiber’s promotion of digital ID is a case in point that warrants critical appraisal. Understandably upbeat about...
The almost 2,000-word harangue by Sechaba Nkoana of the ANC Veterans League (The Mercury, August 12) claiming that opposition to the 2025 Expropriation Act is premised on the preservation of historical land imbalances is significant for what it...
Sekunjalo boss, Dr Iqbal Surve, who is also an ANC and WEF crony, bought Independent Media in 2013 when the Irish magnate O’Reilly sold it for some R2 billion. From the outset, Surve launched a piecemeal purge of mostly white journalists from the...
It is interesting how the same muted mass media stance that has greeted the alliance of the conservative Reform and Restore Britain parties in the UK prevails over Trump’s July 30 historic announcement concerning Gaza and the disarmament of...
The exchanges that took place on July 29 in the US Senate when the ‘Man of Science,’ Dr Antony Fauci, was reduced to ignominy exemplified the expression that what goes around comes around. As the luminary on infectious diseases and chief medical...
Significantly, the mammoth in the room is avoided in both the opinion piece on South Africa’s municipal crisis and The Mercury’s editorial on the subject (July 28). Whilst credible cases can be made for rapid urbanization and the fact that the...
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