EDITORIAL | How low can smirking Steenhuisen go?

Free speech is all very well, but SA voters have the right and duty to call out bullying, sexism and racism

26 October 2021 - 19:23

Civil rights legend Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s words that “the ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people” is an apt summary of the latest racist and sexist threads stitched into our country’s blanket of shame. ..

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