LETTER: Don’t confuse the messenger with the message
As for the WHO, its head was already questionable in terms of leadership long before Covid-19
Ismail Lagardien mistakes the Daily Friend, an online media platform published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), for the institute’s website and goes on to mistake the sentiments of a columnist published on the platform as the institute’s opinion (America First and ‘economy first’ are not the only options (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2020-04-28-ismail-lagardien-america-first-and-economy-first-are-not-the-only-options/), April 28).
This is akin to him asking BusinessLive readers to take his own opinions as those of the publisher, Arena Holdings. In his column, Lagardien cites — though without naming him — Daily Friend columnist Ivo Vegter, taking issue with his view that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has grown “fat, authoritarian and ineffective”...
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