Our nation's security requires brains
The police commissioner's grade 12 doesn't make the grade
19 December 2021 - 00:00
There is a troubling image deeply etched in my mind of President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the nation, flanked by the heads of the defence force and the police, just as the July riots came to an end...
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