MICHAEL MORRIS: Moving from a nasty to a necessary question
Apartheid-era racial classification still imposes a heavy cost, especially on black South Africans
14 October 2024 - 05:00
If you wanted proof of the power of a dominant idea in politics, I once pointed out that you had only to consult the straight-faced entry in Hansard, the official record of parliament, from an otherwise unremarkable day in March 1990.
I might just as well say you have only to consider the question put to judge Phillip Coppin by chief justice Mandisa Maya in his Judicial Service Commission interview last week for a position on the Supreme Court of Appeal. But I’ll get to that in a minute. ..
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