It’s time for bare-fisted action against the Omicron bullies

Western countries’ decision to shut off SA and its neighbours from their shores is not based on science but on politics. Like the cowards that they are, they’ve picked on the powerless

05 December 2021 - 00:01

Petrol prices galloping above R20 a litre this week, rampant crime as our constant companion, the orgy of looting of state resources and the government’s complicity, nay, culpability in all these problems obviously require our ongoing attention. But it may be time now to be mad at the foreigners. There’s nothing more infuriating, more exasperating, than someone grinning and praising you to your face while plunging a dagger in your back. Hypocrisy writ large...

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