Grim echoes and useful lessons from SA in what the US is going through today
As protest roils the US, Trump's path is eerily similar to PW Botha's
07 June 2020 - 00:00
I have always been an Americophile, out of admiration for its intellectual and cultural richness. And of course, no single group of people has done more to create that culture than African-Americans - in music, literature, sports and its great intellectual traditions from WEB du Bois to Cornel West...
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