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...
The reported uncertainty of business leaders about economic prospects in the event that a coalition wields power after May 29 obviously hinges on the components of such a coalition (The Mercury, May 10). Coinciding with this uncertainty in...
Unless the current trend is reversed, in decades to come, honest historians will ascribe the demise of South Africa and its transformation into a depopulated, impoverished vassal state of the global elite to two fatally flawed ideologies...
Justice is not served when it is exploited for ideological reasons. That is the basis of the ANC government’s case against Israel, which the German government has condemned as “political instrumentalization” of the 1948 Genocide Convention (The...
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...
One of the symbols in South Africa’s Coat of Arms may serve to assuage a degree of Netherlands Consul General Sebastiaan Messerschmidt’s guilt complex about the legacy of Dutch colonialism at the Cape (The Mercury, June 2). Within the...
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