US election rings alarm bells for SA
South Africa is ill-prepared for another Trump presidency
14 July 2024 - 00:00
It is sometimes easy to forget that what we know now as the United States of America fought a furious war of liberation against its coloniser, the British Empire, to win its freedom. Just 200 years later it was the world’s dominant power economically and militarily. Its money, the dollar, is still the world’s currency, its culture widely envied and its democracy a global template...
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