EDITORIAL: World waits to see which version of America will show itself
South Africans should learn not to take our hard-won democracy for granted
03 November 2020 - 05:00
If South Africans learnt one thing from the disastrous Jacob Zuma presidency it’s that institutions are ultimately as good as the people who are entrusted to look after them.
That’s why by the time Zuma left, the country’s law enforcement and tax authorities, to name just two, were in tatters, having been the envy of the world less than a decade earlier...
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