Opinion

Spiritual poverty can make the fist an attractive proposition

The manner in which the EFF singles out foes is a prelude to violence

25 August 2019 - 00:03 By XOLELA MANGCU

If the rhetoric of the EFF against journalists, judges and intellectuals does not frighten you, then you clearly have not lived under the spectre of violence. I am not talking about just colonial and apartheid violence, but the carnage that tore the Black community apart in the 1980s. I lost many comrades in that decade...

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