LETTER: IMF is coming to Union Buildings
Contradictions abound on both sides of the Atlantic, in Trump's America and Ramaphosa's SA
19 January 2020 - 19:48
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness ...” In his opening elegy to the Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens captures the essence of the contradictions we experience 200-plus years later.
In Washington we see a presidency that has transformed the entire architecture of world diplomacy and economic order and in the process created an economic phenomenon — a 3%-5% unemployment rate. Across the Atlantic, in Pretoria, we see our cluster of chieftains, in their uninspired way, bicker over how to arrange the deck chairs on the SA Titanic...
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