MARK BARNES: Stay in SA, not because it is easy but because it is hard
An enduring solution will require deferred gratification for the harvest to feed everyone
15 February 2024 - 05:00
As I sit down to write this column, it has been 13-and-a-half hours since I last had electricity (a combination of load-shedding and that new household term, “an unplanned outage”). How polite — how inconvenient.
The outlook is bleak. And the next crisis — water — is going to have far more devastating and personal consequences. Our problems will keep stacking up, unless you believe the selected statistics, ignored truths and barrages of unkept promises proffered in the president’s state of the nation address. ..
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