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Politics For The Cameras
IF political theatre is your thing, you need to stick to the script.
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Are They Listening Now?
THERE are times when national alarm at something which is going badly wrong may show that things are really getting better. Now may be one of them.
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When ‘Merit’ Means ‘People Like Us’
FOR the leader of the Democratic Alliance, ‘merit appointment’ is hiring people who claim that ‘Bantu people, much like Arabs, are not democratic people’ and question whether protestors really were murdered by police at Sharpeville in 1960.
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Speaking Truth About Power
TWO myths have been exploded by the absence of load shedding for around five months. This should change the national debate but probably will not.
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A Colonial White Paper
THE Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, would no doubt be horrified to be called a champion of colonial thinking. So would many whose loud voices agree with him. But that is exactly what they are.
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Applying To Be Human?
WHY do we take it for granted that human beings should stand in a line and fill out forms to claim one of our most basic rights?
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The People Serve At The Government’s Pleasure
IF the people are not what the government want them to be, the people must change.
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Saving Democracy From The West
IF democracy is to flourish, its advocates may need to rescue it from the West.
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