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  30 August 2020 President Cyril Ramaphosa is popular for his legendary negotiation skills. This is epitomised by his leadership during the Codesa talks to usher...

  23 August Politicians and their docile followers have been frothing at the mouth since the news of the construction of an Afrikaner university was released. Five...

Conscience of a Centrist My mother has a strong work ethic, but she also has a fierce “ambition”. Self-regard in the face of oppression is...

  9 August 2020 In February 1995,  president Nelson Mandela said his government was alarmed by the threat that corrupt norms, which were implanted by apartheid,...

  2 August 2020 Kabelo Khumalo Conscience of a Centrist The International Monetary Fund (IMF) barbarians are at the gate. And there is little resistance to ward them...

  26 July 2020 My father had a short fuse and when it was fuelled by booze, bombs would occasionally go off in our small household. On...

  19 July 2020 Sizwe Gwala Napoleon Hill asserted that “patience, persistence, and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”. This quotation resonates as one believes it kept...

  12 July 2020 Mongadi Mafata Money-savvy people who had set up emergency funds have been able to ride the storm that is COVID-19 and now empathise...

  5 July 2020 Dr Chantell Witten   On March 26 2020, the president declared a national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it started to...

  28 June 2020 Mongadi Mafata Irecently celebrated my birthday, which was rather muted given the Coronavirus stranglehold the world is operating under. There were fewer balloons, fewer...