The DA’s treatment of Helen Zille is completely at odds with its official commitment to an “an open, opportunity society” and its motto of “freedom, fairness and opportunity.” Thus, in terms of the liberal tolerance...
Despite lamenting the crisis within the ANC and the extent to which the country is wracked by failed ANC governance (editorial, May 31), it is disappointing to note that the Daily News, persists in believing that only the ANC can extricate South...
For years the DA has prided itself as being the defender of liberal, democratic debate. But to some extent of late, that mantle appears, ironically, to have passed to the ANC. Whereas a succession debate now rages within the ANC with two...
KZN ANC chairman Sihle Sikalala’s antics on the succession debate within the ANC (Daily News, May 15) are reminiscent of the joke that used to be told about democracy in the Soviet Union which recalled that a Kremlin burglary had revealed...
The editorial titled ‘We put our trust in you’ raises pertinent questions (Mercury, 11 May). The Mercury is not a national newspaper so Arthur Miller’s line of a ‘nation talking to itself’ does not apply in a strict...
Predictably the Reuters report carried in the Daily News on May 8 hailed the election of Emmanuel Macron in France and, in particular, the margin of his victory. But it is a significance that is misleading. While Macron’s 65% to Le...
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