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ARE the days when ANC palace politics mattered gone? Not at all.

SOME damage can be seen very clearly and right away. But harm can also take years to show itself. The torment of Palestine and the West’s role in it have caused both types of damage.

DEMOCRACY means that the majority decides. But it cannot do whatever it pleases.

CAN this country find a better way of dealing with difference than an annual ritual which few take seriously?

IF political theatre is your thing, you need to stick to the script.

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.

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.

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.

SHOULD we worry that ‘political news’ in this country is little more than what reporters read on their phones and tablets?

SHOULD we worry that ‘political news’ in this country is little more than what reporters read on their phones and tablets?