It would be too time-consuming to respond individually to every distortion, misrepresentation or falsehood that has been published relating to my series of 12 tweets on lessons learnt from my recent visit to Singapore. One of those lessons was that Singapore, having suffered centuries of colonial oppression, succeeded in repurposing aspects of colonialism’s legacy on which it built an inclusive modern economy. This, among other things, has enabled its people to escape poverty within a generation. There is no question that colonialism was driven by greed and oppressive intent. The question for countries today is whether they are able, like Singapore, to leverage aspects of the legacy of an oppressive past to their advantage. In online conversations, I wanted to raise this question in a South African context. As we all now know, this caused a volcanic political eruption. In the process, many untruths and fabrications were disseminated, including: • False allegations that I defended, j...
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