Opinion
There's something wrong with today's youth - and yesterday's kids too
We're being pathologically lazy when figuring out what's wrong with our country and what to do about it
16 June 2019 - 00:15
Last week I finally got round to watching the brilliant movie Ellen, starring Jill Levenberg and Elton Landrew. It is based on the much-publicised real-life story of Ellen Pakkies, the mother from Lavender Hill, Cape Town, who ended the life of her own son out of her fear for the monster he had become, thanks to tik...
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