Despite huge demographic differences, parallels in policies between Australia and South Africa addressing inequalities regarding indigenous populations appear mired in similar controversies. It is common knowledge that, as a mechanism to uplift...
With his belief that South African history began only in 1994, Julius Malema would endorse Professor Dasarath Chetty’s view that in order to cleanse and deodorise the present, reminders of the past in the form of statues and monuments should be...
The subversion and destruction of national sovereignty and constitutional order by means of mass immigration and the criminalizing of free speech is the primary objective of globalism. While it is on full display in most of the Western world, its...
Grandstanding is justified when it is premised on reason and achievement. President Ramaphosa’s attempt at grandstanding at the UN General Assembly on subjects like trade, debt, climate and poverty was devoid of credibility because, like the rest...
Like Mushtak Parker’s opinion pieces, the one by Mahmoud Baker (The Mercury, September 16) is afflicted by Trump Derangement Syndrome and globalism. This affliction ensures an inability to be objective about the global revolution Trump promised...
The Mercury’s September 17 editorial assertion that double standards prevail in Western countries because the outcry against Charlie Kirk’s murder is not matched by one against atrocities in Gaza is a mistaken conflation of two very different...
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