When someone thinks you are wrong on the internet, they waste no time telling you — and smirking when they think you have egg on your face.

I’ve experienced it many times but perhaps never as intensely as after a recent column about minerals & energy minister Gwede Mantashe’s irrational defence of "cleaner coal" as a power source for the future...

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