LETTER: Tony Heard’s ‘detoxing of SA politics’ — what a load of drivel!
Tony Heard writes some absolute nonsense (“SA urgently needs a detoxing of its politics (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/life/2020-01-28-tony-heard-sa-urgently-needs-a-detoxing-of-its-politics/)”, January 28).
“Happily, there are signs of recovery under President Cyril Ramaphosa.” Could he provide just one example, please? And: “Let us, then, agree on fundamentals, and the only place to begin is the spirit of a social compact that produced our permanent constitution introduced in 1996.” Fundamentals such as socialism, of which Winston Churchill said: “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”..
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