JANNIE ROSSOUW: South Africa’s two settings: despair and hope
Despite extensive mismanagement by the ANC (and the list is long), South Africans still have a lot to be proud of, including the Reserve Bank
15 May 2025 - 05:00
As far back as 1941, the historian CW de Kiewiet stated that South Africa had advanced politically by disasters and economically by windfalls.
Jan Smuts, a former prime minister of the Union of South Africa, held the view in 1949 that neither the worst nor the best happens in South Africa...
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