Kirtan Bhana’s eulogy of Fidel Castro (The Mercury, August 15) is so contradicted by truth that it equates to crediting Stalin with popularizing tourism to Siberia. It beggars belief that despite his learned association with diplomacy, Mr Bhana...
As more details drip out regarding the format of the ANC’s ‘national dialogue’ (The Mercury, August 12), to some extent, the intended exercise may parallel Mao Zedong’s ‘One Hundred Flowers’ campaign of 1956-57. Fully aware of the peasants’...
The reset of relations between Zimbabwe and the UK after nearly 30 years of fractured ties serves as yet another example of the validity of the phrase ‘perfidious Albion’. In the 1960s and 1970s, the various UK governments marshalled...
The assertion by Brett Herron of the Good Party that a national dialogue is more pertinent than ever (The Mercury, August 8) is naïve and unrealistic not only because of how the ANC has structured the intended process, but because the May 29...
Narendh Ganesh’s reminder of the 1985 Inanda riots is timely and thought-provoking. However, his view that those riots should “not overshadow the fact that South Africa is a country of one people” is not borne out by history and reality. As...
For its hilarity, hyperbole and hypocrisy, the front-page report of Julius Malema’s rant at the weekend claiming Trump poses a danger to global stability would have been more appropriate if featured on page 2 in The Idler’s Column (The...
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