Lack of leadership means all we're left with is luck

19 July 2020 - 00:00 By and peter bruce

Even if your relationship with the Afrikaans language is as frail as mine, reading Max du Preez's online magazine/newspaper, Vrye Weekblad (https://www.vryeweekblad.com/), published by the same house as this very column, will surely cheer you up. The end of apartheid seems to have freed up the people who speak Afrikaans to an almost unfair degree. They're having too much fun...

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