Not since Franklin Roosevelt’s crushing victory over President Herbert Hoover in 1932 and the eager anticipation of his New Deal policies to lift America out of its depression woes, has such anticipation heralded the inauguration of a new...
The regular columns by the Presidential Climate Commission scribes are out of place in a publication that largely reports facts. It is nothing less than deliberate falsehood to keep harping on about carbon emissions being responsible for climate...
Wilful manipulation of ignorance is what comes to mind in reading Jacob Zuma’s “bold vision” of how his MKP would liberate and “rectify the systemic inequalities” to deliver “true freedom” (The Mercury, December 17). Stalin used to blame the...
Before the year recedes, it seems timely to reflect on the historical footprint of the arrival of a small, white settler presence around the Durban Bay area 200 years ago in 1824. Of the three main settlers, the lives of the two ex-officers of...
Besides being a desperate move to bolster declining revenues, the intention of those in power to impose a surcharge on the use of solar systems is just another way of restricting individual independence by extending and centralising state control...
Two articles appearing side by side in the Business Report on December 5 have a glaring disconnect. One claims the Climate Response Fund can drive fiscal reform. The other notes the international distress debt is causing. Currently, it costs...
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