SHIRLEY DE VILLIERS: Democracy was already under siege before Covid-19
With the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the gallop across the globe, it’s no wonder that two important political barometers got lost in the noise
19 June 2020 - 06:00
This week, North Korea blew up its border liaison office with South Korea.
Nothing says “Talks are off” quite like detonating your only real point of contact. And Chinese and Indian soldiers “attacked each other with stones, iron rods and bamboo poles wrapped in barbed wire laced with nails” along a disputed section of the countries’ shared 3,500km border, Bloomberg reports...
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