The extent to which politics makes strange bedfellows is colouring the scenario of a coalition between the ANC and the DA. Yet historically, that need not be the case. The founders of the ANC in 1912 were moderate, middle-class Africans who...
There must be many in eThekwini who are appalled and outraged at the expense of R22 million of ratepayers’ money on statues to commemorate OR Tambo and Nelson Mandela (The Mercury, 2 June). Even if eThekwini’s finances were in order...
After reading former History tutor and teacher, Thembile Ndabeni’s paean of praise for Stalin for delivering development to Russia and bringing peace and liberation (The Mercury, April 25), there must be many readers awaiting his enlightened...
Sinking in the polls with their heads in the sand, trying to blame everything else except themselves for having systematically looted, corrupted and bankrupted the country while creating mass unemployment, the only topic the ANC prefer to talk...
Unisa’s claim to be 150 years old is historically tenuous given the year its name originated (The Mercury, February 13). In 1873, the Cape Parliament approved the establishment of the University of the Cape of Good Hope which was renamed the...
Ivo Vegter’s attempt to disparage the anti-vax “mob,” as he terms them, is so weak that it is surprising the Daily Friend (October 14) published it, notwithstanding its disclaimer at the end of Vegter’s piece. In a single broadside, he claims the...
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