Effective propaganda requires at least a degree of credibility. But nowhere in his lengthy harangue does Julius Malema provide any indication of how the EFF would provide better governance of KZN (The Mercury, December 7). Cataloguing the...
It has been said that in a world of propaganda, truth is always a conspiracy. In light of unfolding developments, the extent to which the doctrine known as “the narrative” has been exposed as propaganda should inspire fear and alarm. In recent...
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...
In the communist lexicon, history and propaganda are one and the same. Cuban Ambassador Benitez Verson’s encomium of Fidel Castro (The Mercury, August 13) is a case in point. Historically, it is true that Castro overthrew the corrupt, colonialist...
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...
In the 1930s, when Russia was facing severe food shortages as a result of the eviction of 10 million kulak farmers from their lands, communists used to console their supporters by saying that although things were bad, they would have been much...
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