Our Orwellian culture of doublespeak
SA’s politicians have taken the noble words of progressive, leftist thinking and distorted them to mean the opposite
01 September 2024 - 00:00
So systemic is corruption, manipulation of the truth and lying among politicians in South Africa that traditional political terms have been captured and manipulated for self-interest, and now often mean the opposite of what the dictionary says they do. ..
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