Melanie Verwoerd’s hand-wringing plea for white South Africans to reject the old flag would have some credibility if her plea applied to the communist hammer and sickle flag as well (The Witness, August 29). Under the communist flag, more...
At a time when newspaper sales are declining worldwide, it is surprising that The Mercury sees fit to serve up outrageous fake news by Independent Group Foreign Editor Shannon Ebrahim (August 30) proclaiming that socialism is a success in...
Despite every indication that the proposed implementation of the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme is a no-brainer, (Mercury, August 12), the decision to proceed with it can be understood only in terms of Saul Alinsky’s timetable of how to...
In that, The Mercury features the words “racism stops with me” as part of its masthead, its failure to report a major victory against racism concerning Black First Land First (BLF) is disconcerting (July 16). An objection against the BLF’s...
Safety in schools is directly related to discipline mechanisms. Therefore, the plan to deploy so-called community safety volunteers in schools and to establish safe school committees in an attempt to combat violence in schools is ludicrous...
The flight of businesses from CBDs in the province as a result of rampant crime (Mercury, July 26) should be seen as an opportunity to reconfigure municipal boundaries. Economic decentralisation has long been the trend as far as shops and...
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