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IF the Phala Phala allegations cost the President his job, party politics and the way democracy works here could change decisively. The point seems lost on a national ‘debate’ which is little more than a moralising chorus.

CRITICISING COURTS, an important democratic right, has fallen into disrepute in this country. The Constitutional Court’s ruling granting Janusz Walus parole should change that.

DURING the 2019 election campaign, some voters took to cyberspace to announce that they were ‘voting the ANC out’. When asked who they were voting in, they became angry and refused to answer.

NOTHING, it seems, will cure this country’s elites from turning political problems into legal issues, making them harder to solve.

Though the Stellenbosch university student’s act needs to be condemned, obvious discrimination is a symptom of an ingrained hierarchical system that continues to favour white people.

There’s a limit to how much one person can spend and it falls way below what top executives are paid in South Africa. Inequality will remain until the wealthy concede this.

Hounding people born elsewhere is a form of bigotry, no less than racism or sexism. Those who believe in equal treatment for everyone should campaign against this prejudice.

Mainstream media compared South Africa’s pandemic response to European and North American countries, claiming we had done well, but African countries in fact did much better than us.

The media simply repeating what the South African Jewish Board of Deputies says is misleading. The Constitutional Court judgment is something of which our country can be proud.

Nothing in the state of the nation address signified that the president and his administration know how to win back the trust of the impoverished who feel let down by them.