The question is: what are we doing with our freedom?
Too often the message from our political class seems to be that they should be trusted with the country’s future because of having fought against apartheid
12 February 2023 - 00:06
As the debate raged about whether President Cyril Ramaphosa's opening remarks during the state of the nation address on Thursday night were his way of taking a dig at former president Thabo Mbeki’s much celebrated 1996 “I am an African” speech, I was reminded of yet another speech — delivered by someone not related to the two — that we should always keep in the back of our minds...
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