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Fascism coming into its own
That distilled form of the poison of nationalism — fascism — an authoritarian, top-down system powered by xenophobia is gaining strength in South Africa.
The global deficit is democracy
September 5, 2020
The stark, frightening reality of the consequences of Covid-19 and the reactions to it are becoming increasingly obvious. And no more so than in the estimates for the rate of unemployment in a country already recognised the world’s worst in the jobless stakes. An official level of 50% – half the adult population between the […]
‘Ye are many’ — the basic lesson for a better future
August 21, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic and the responses to it, have highlighted as perhaps never before, the gross injustice and inequality that has been regarded as 'normal' until now. Time perhaps for the many to say to the few: Enough. It is a normal to which we shall never return.
A call to clear the road ahead
August 9, 2020
We should honour the pioneers who sacrificed so much by ensuring that the road ahead is cleared of the clutter of corruption, bureaucracy and prejudice.
‘Grooming’, irrationality & Covid-19
August 5, 2020
Unless a series of sometimes contradictory and apparently irrational Covid-19 orders is cleared up, the SA government may be regarded as the National Inanity.
Irrationality & the vultures
July 27, 2020
As more people are thrown onto the scrapheap of unemployment, driven to desperation, the vultures gather to pick their bones.
Three clarion calls to action
July 12, 2020
Time to fight for free, universal access to any Covid-19 vaccine or treatment and, in the longer term, free, universal healthcare.
A time to try real democracy
June 27, 2020
Covid-19 is being used by politicians the world over to try to hide the fact that the system they administer was responsible for the economic crisis now exacerbated by Covid-19. Time now to try a true democratic alternative?
Terry Bell Writes 
February 7, 2022
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