EDITORIAL | Here’s to 30 years of hearty wins and heart-wrenching horrors

As the country turns 30 on Saturday we all owe it to ourselves to pause and ponder how we got here

25 April 2024 - 21:52

It would be lazy to characterise the South African story as a tale of two cities, as Charles Dickens once famously wrote. Or still, a tale of two nations, one white and rich and the other black and poor, as former president Thabo Mbeki characterised it on February 9 2001...

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