DA’s flag-burning advert is treasonous
12 May 2024 - 00:00
The sight of a post-apartheid South African flag burning in your lounge through a national news agency should have evoked emotions of disdain and insult in a state that has a nation. A national flag is a single symbol that combines the wholeness of a nation, whence its hoisting is never without the national anthem. The price of politics is not only the government but also the privilege to become an organ of the state as a person, thus acting in its interest all the time...
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