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Teetering along the brink of the abyss
(First published in Fin24 and in City Press, South Africa) The past few weeks have highlighted more clearly than ever, that the authority and the rule of law within South Africa’s constitutional parliamentary dispensation has gone beyond merely fraying at the edges. Also how confusion can be spread, with potentially dangerous consequences, by the manipulation […]
Worst case scenario for SA
August 1, 2022
(First published in Maverick 168 on 30 July, 2022) An “Arab Spring” threatens South Africa, former President Thabo Mbeki warned last week.. But he was wrong. The threat the country faces is much more dangerous: violent fragmentation fuelled by ethnic nationalisms — even potential civil war. That is the worst case scenario, which, if […]
Terry Bell Writes 
August 9, 2022
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