Reforming our democracy is the most pressing challenge we face
As SA stands at a crucial turning point, we need to gather the courage to forge a new dispensation
01 August 2021 - 00:00
The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci, writing from prison in 1930, declared that "the old is dying and the new cannot be born". He added that "in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear"...
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