Life Imprisonment Is Not Deterring Murder
Although the outpouring of anguish and moral outrage in the media at the brutal massacre of an entire family in...
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A History Syllabus Should Not Be Conditioned by Prejudices
In the Preface of their ground-breaking two-volume Oxford History of South Africa, published in 1969 and 1971, Monica Wilson and Leonard...
Do Away With Freedom Day, or Change Race Laws
27 April marks Freedom Day in South Africa, since 1994 saw our first free and fair elections take place, and...
Water Losses Raise Several Questions
News that the eThekwini Municipality has hired an experienced engineer to reduce non-revenue water losses (The Mercury, April 23) raises several...
Disgraceful Branken Yells Leftist Rhetoric as Zille Calmly Responds
By now, most people would've seen or heard about 'pastor' Nigel Branken's rant when he accused Helen Zille and the...
The ANC’s Economic Sabotage of Electricity
Despite having become almost desensitized to the daily disclosures of corruption, fraud and outright looting, what exceeds all of that...
Are We Saving Animals to Poison Humans?
The Mzansi Meat company in SA, better known as Newform Foods, is the first to produce lab-grown, cultivated meat, in...
Let AI Determine Malema’s Fate
In terms of the traditional image of the lady displaying justice, the sword representing authority now seems to act without...
MKP’s Radical Land Bill Questioned
‘Backwards to the past’ appropriately describes the MK Party’s proposed final demolition of the Property Act, section 25 of the...
Blatant Gaslighting on the Opinion Pages of The Mercury
Having read Ebrahim Essa's latest opinion piece regarding Israel, South Africa and Apartheid on April 1st, I honestly thought it...
