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South Africa: apocalypse now-now
SA faces a truly bleak future, with little light – literally and figuratively – on the horizon. Still, the fight must go on. The alternative is, to recall a phrase from our past, too ghastly to contemplate
19 December 2019 - 05:00
I don’t want to alarm you unduly, but it seems our country is dooomed. Yes, that’s doomed with extra vowels, just like the crazy men, wearing sandwich boards with "The End Is Nigh" scrawled on them, say it.
It seems especially cruel to flag our imminent apocalypse just before we all go off on holiday for our annual enforced celebration of Christian beliefs and capitalist entropy. This should be the time to relax and unwind, not to contemplate the dizzying downward spiral towards social decay and economic irrelevance that our government has decided is what we deserve...
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