The hysteria against President Trump’s temporary withholding of travel visas affecting seven Middle East states is both sad and pathetic because it is based on sheer ignorance (Daily News, January 30). Trump’s order is based on a 2015 law signed...
Whilst Prof George Devenish is critical of the racial excesses attached to the idea of decolonisation, (Daily News, January 25), his apparent support for the process in general raises questions. The aim of decolonisation, he notes, is part of...
The reasoning of the Statistician-General, Dr Pali Lehohla as to why the success rate of black students at university level is now worse than in the 1980s beggars belief (Daily News, January 24). Lehohla stated that in the 1980s for every...
Given the speed of the Trump tsunami, it is reasonable to forgive the media for continuing to apply political labels which have become archaic. The Daily News editorial of January 23 titled “Right-wing unity a threat” is a case in point. Nowhere...
Central to the apparent controversy surrounding UKZN Vice-Chancellor, Dr Albert van Jaarsveld, is the concept of “transformation” (Daily News, January 16). Although accusations of racism and incompetence levelled at Dr van Jaarsveld have been...
The Mercury’s editorial of January 17 endorsing the substance of the ANC’s call for radical expropriation of land provokes simultaneously a sense of sadness and outrage. It beggars belief that the Mercury should lend credence to this latest ANC...
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