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HAS a by-election in Saldanha Bay said something important about democracy’s prospects here? In one way, probably not. In another, yes, it has.

MEMBERS of Parliament may have more of a say in the budget than ever before. But will people living in poverty pay the price?

KNOWING what you cannot change may be as important as knowing what you can.

IS who sends a message and how they send it more important than the message they send?

HAS the coalition, by accident, set this country on the way to more democratic budgeting?

HATE will not end if we command it to go away. But it can do us less harm if we face it and take it on.

WILL events in the US and Europe cure this country’s decision-makers and -shapers of a crippling bias? They should but probably won’t.

DONALD Trump and Elon Musk share a ‘skill’ most of us would prefer not to have – they make ‘respectable’ prejudices sound shameful.

THE prejudices of this country’s elites are never pretty. Now, in Stilfontein, they have claimed at least 88 lives.

THE prejudices of this country’s elites are never pretty. Now, in Stilfontein, they have claimed at least 88 lives.