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If you loot institutions, you will miss them when they’re gone
- By James Lorimer
- . Jul 15, 2021
The media and social media have been alive with pictures that convey a sense of the sheer normality of looting and destruction in South Africa.
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The 2021 explosion: South Africa’s post-1994 turning point
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Jul 14, 2021
The spate of rioting and looting that began at the weekend has to be a turning point. Never before in our post-1994 history has there
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Our next faltering steps …
- By Anthony Turton
- . Jul 14, 2021
After a 24-hour orgy of violence, I sit alone in my whale-watching room and reflect as I read the many messages that have been sent
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Violent anarchy: just what we’ve been warning SA to expect – Frans Cronje
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 13, 2021
‘Very high levels of economic exclusion, failing schools, unchecked corruption, racial nationalist rhetoric from the government, inept and poorly motivated security forces led by people
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Observations on South Africa’s descent into anarchy
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 13, 2021
Amid the chaos that has descended upon the country in the wake of Jacob Zuma’s incarceration, South Africa’s leaders have a lot to answer for.
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Letter: By recanting, Zuma can unlock the door of his cell
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 12, 2021
Dear Editor Everyone is saying that Mr Zuma will be eligible for parole after serving a quarter of the fifteen month sentence imposed on him
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Zuma: the end of the beginning?
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Jul 12, 2021
After the British and their many allies had defeated Erwin Rommel at the second Battle of Alamein in October and November 1942, Winston Churchill famously
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When small successes deceive
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Jul 12, 2021
Where is the evidence that the ANC’s goals have changed? To party elders, Zuma’s unforgivable sin was his electoral toxicity. Echoing past injustices, systemic patronage
Why I maintain that the IRR has crossed an unforgivable line
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 12, 2021
Roger Southall Martin van Staden reacted to my letter in Business Day by penning a diatribe, describing me inter alia as a ‘transformationist’ and a
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An evolving American language – inclusive, gender neutral, racialised
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Jul 11, 2021
In his 1946 essay, ‘Politics and the English Language’, George Orwell lamented the decay in English usage that he believed was corrupting thinking itself. He