It is difficult to perceive a sentiment of sincerity in local government MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube’s lambasting of her comrades for their part in the municipal meltdown of Pietermaritzburg (The Witness, April 10). After all, the governance shambles...
Commissar Sihle Zikalala’s remarks eulogising 25 years of ANC rule (Mercury, February 15) mirror the brand of propaganda readers of Pravda had to endure extolling the virtues of totalitarian communism in the USSR. In the true Orwellian style...
Seldom has an opinion piece reflected such confusion and ignorance as that penned by Ebrahim Harvey (Daily News,December 19) in which he blames neo-liberal policies for the socio-economic mess that has materialised under the ANC. Contrary to what...
Revisiting the purpose and findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on the twentieth anniversary of the submission of its report (Mercury, December 3) is well and good. However, the impact of that report tends to be diminished...
Placed below Mercury’s front page masthead is the statement “Racism stops with me.” But in attempting to stop racism, it makes sense to establish what is causing racism. After all, prevention is better than cure. Besides the...
The report in the Mercury of June 26 that the ANC is shocked at the scale of corruption in the country is as ludicrous as Satan saying he is shocked by sin. While, of course, measures to remedy the corrupt state of SOEs such as Eskom, Transnet...
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