The merits of the letter concerning Heritage Month and how “differences can be used as assets as opposed to tools of conflict” (The Mercury, September 7), unfortunately, are not being realised by aspects of the school syllabus. The grade 11...
In the communist lexicon, history and propaganda are one and the same. Cuban Ambassador Benitez Verson’s encomium of Fidel Castro (The Mercury, August 13) is a case in point. Historically, it is true that Castro overthrew the corrupt, colonialist...
In accounting for the bleak state of municipal finances in KZN Finance MEC Ravi Pillay makes no reference to the two fundamental causes of the meltdown of governance in South Africa, namely, corruption and the ideology of transformation (The...
Much was made by the likes of Mandela after 1994 that non-racialism would characterise South Africa’s future and erase the cancer of race-based laws. But 26 years on, race-based laws are actually more prolific than ever before. Let’s do the sums...
History has an unerring way of repeating itself. In parts of the US between the 1830s and 1850s, anti-slave and abolition movements were subjected to violence, discord and the perversion of civil liberties by those who opposed emancipation and...
Despite the media admission by its founders that BLM is Marxist in ideology and is intent on weaponising race so as to foment social discord and division, it is a disgrace that by its editorials of July 17 and 22, The Mercury sees fit to play...
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