highway to hell
Social media: SA’s highway to hell
The way things are going, we’re going to have to break Twitter so that we can get real use out of it — as we did by adding speed bumps to our roads
20 February 2020 - 05:00
In the rarefied, highly paid world of elite-class columnists, the week after a state of the nation address is known as Harry Potter Week.* This is because, as with the arch-villain Voldemort in the books, we’re desperately trying not to mention The Party That Must Not Be Named — even though it has cleverly hijacked the national discourse with its populist antics.
So this week, instead of going with the bright red flow, I decided to scratch around and find something positive to write about, and I came across this statistic...
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