In exhorting voters to “turn South Africa around,” on one of its election posters the ANC conceded that the country is in need of a new direction. As a result, many voted in the hope that President Ramaphosa would honour that commitment. Sadly...
It is unfortunate that in recalling the significance of George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Kiru Naidoo (Mercury, June 21) allows his anti-Trump prejudice to cloud his objectivity in perceiving the Big Brother role of the mainstream media...
One wonders who commissar Sihle Zikalala thinks he is deceiving when he defends Zindzi Mandela’s racist, anti-white remarks as being within her rights yet he simultaneously pleads for “reconciliation” on the land issue (Mercury, June 18). Not...
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...
As with the publication of RW Johnson’s books which critically dissect the direction of South Africa under the ANC, the media have been derelict in publicising Dr Anthea Jeffery’s incontrovertible documentation of the ANC’s agenda to transform...
In his consistent opposition to the reinstatement of the death penalty, Professor George Devenish cites the Makwanyane judgment, which asserted that capital punishment is in conflict with sections of the Bill of Rights (Mercury, September 9). The...
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