In noting historically that blacks were the real victims of expropriation of land without compensation, the subtle message Dougie Oakes (Daily News, March 6) seems intent on delivering is that the same treatment is justified for current white...
“South Africa can either choose to have an ANC government or it can have a modern industrial economy. It cannot have both,” stated Oxford academic, Dr RW Johnson, on the cover of his book How long can South Africa survive. Added to...
The DA’s dilemma with its Cape Town mayor, Patricia De Lille, is entirely self-inflicted. In that the DA prescribes rigorous probity tests for its public representatives, De Lille should never have been accepted as a DA public rep. In...
The Mercury’s editorial “An empire crumbles” (January 22) marks a refreshing and encouraging departure from its posture of the past year when it often attempted to navigate between the pro and anti-Zuma factions within the ANC...
In lamenting the fact that unemployment stands at almost ten million, it is amazing that Kabelo Khumalo (Business Report, January 9) fails to question the reasons unemployment has tripled since 1994. Down the years numerous studies have pointed...
Derek Bird (Mercury, January 2) rightly deplores the fact that no punitive action has been taken against minister Gigaba despite having perjured himself in court. In concluding that political bosses in ANC-ruled South Africa appear to enjoy a...
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