Tuesday’s letters page was most informative, but it left me wondering how people think. Ian James, writing about Brexit, seemed to miss the point about so-called uninformed voters (Brexit and land link shaky, August 14), while Tshepo Diale took a swipe at AfriForum for taking a stand against expropriation without compensation, as if it was a threat to our hard-won democracy (AfriForum stirs trouble, August 14). At the same time, Martin Zagnoev displayed a total lack of background knowledge when talking about the mass boycott of e-tolls as if corruption was not involved in it at all (Are e-tolls a scapegoat? August 14). I see holding referendums as a tool for governments to push a populist agenda or sidestep the responsibilities they were elected to undertake. It is absolute drivel to maintain that the will of the people of the UK was definitive, when fewer than 52% voted to leave the EU. The information the public was given was woefully inadequate. To expect your population to reall...
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