LUCKY MATHEBULA | Messages from the Oval Office
Ramaphosa should make the issues raised at the Oval Office an agenda item for the National Dialogue
26 May 2025 - 04:30
It has become a convention of political correctness for the South African elite, who hold significant power and influence, to project a country in a state of perpetual reconciliation. Sociocultural rituals have rendered South Africa's nationhood a cliché. Politics, social cohesion and economics are treated as disconnected entities. Social cohesion is not recognised as an outcome of an acceptable political and democratic order...
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