The generous half-page spread in the Mercury of October 22 eulogising Eric ‘Stalin’ Mtshali of the SA Communist Party raises an interesting issue: if eulogising members of discredited, failed ideologies like communism is worthy of...
Eulogies to what are termed “struggle icons” have become commonplace in Independent Newspapers, the one on Moses Mabhida (June 8) being a case in point. In terms of free expression, there can be no substantial objection to historic...
History without context invariably degenerates into propaganda. Arushan Naidoo’s eulogy of Oliver Tambo (Mercury, 9 November) is a case in point. In the first instance, Naidoo’s eulogy hardly qualifies to feature on a page which...
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