Retired judge Rex van Schalkwyk’s article was an extraordinarily insightful and lucid explanation of how ANC ideology and policies have been the principal cause of the decline and systemic destruction of the economy (“SA’s economic decline has happened by design (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-12-02-sas-economic-decline-has-happened-by-design/)”, December 2).
One of the books written by Barbara W Tuchman, that remarkably talented US historian, was The March of Folly, in which she explores the insistent pursuit by those who should know better of policies that are destined for failure. The story of the Trojan horse is probably the most widely known example that she examines...
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