JUSTICE MALALA | Government has become as cold, callous and inhumane as our former oppressors

Nelson Mandela, who instructed us to build a country based on human rights, is surely weeping right now seeing what we have become

18 November 2024 - 04:38

At which point after their freedom do the oppressed forget their history and experience and become like their oppressors? When do those who have claimed a higher moral and ethical compass cast their noble history aside and give in to the base and cruel instincts that drove their oppressors?..

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