SIMON BARBER: America First in danger of becoming America Alone
SA needs to keep its head down and focus on winning the confidence of people it will need
17 February 2025 - 05:00
When things were getting hairy in the run-up to SA’s 1994 election the late Ken Owen, then editor of the Sunday Times, would tell his staff and readers to keep their nerve. Good advice. There were many moments when the sky seemed certain to fall, but it never did.
Today in Washington Owen’s wisdom feels no less wise but takes a steelier discipline to practise. It was easier to believe SA would pull through then. South Africans truly yearned for democracy...
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