Draco compiled Athens’s first set of written laws. Being somewhat unimaginative, he once decided that stealing apples merited death, while all more serious offences got the same punishment by default.
Despite Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s protestations to the contrary, the ANC’s “disastrous regulations” are much the same. Instead of a moderate removal of constitutional rights and freedoms that could be ramped up if Covid-19 infection rates surged, it aggressively imposed a total lockdown. This, together with nonsensical prescriptions, rapidly turned co-operation into confrontation. ..
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