JUSTICE MALALA | ANC elders have seen it all before. Has history taught them nothing?
We are repeating the exact same mistakes our previously colonised neighbours made 50 years ago
01 October 2023 - 19:57
It is always worth reminding South Africans that we are blessed and cursed at the same time. We are cursed because we achieved our true humanity — the defeat of apartheid — only in 1994, a full 37 years after Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African country to gain its independence from European colonisation...
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