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Gwynne Dyer on the Decline of the ANC

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Gwynne Dyer: A Couch Stuffed With Cash?

December 22, 2022
Gwynne Dyer is a UK-based Canadian journalist and historian who writes about international affairs.

“Don’t have a couch stuffed with cash? Don’t worry, you can keep reading for free,” read the ad on the website of the ‘Daily Maverick’, a tough and sometimes very funny South African news site.

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cash-stuffed sofa has become a powerful, universally recognised meme, but it still hasn’t brought him down. Continue reading Gwynne Dyer on the Decline of the ANC →

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Quotes for the Day

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It was tempting to open with a passage from Volodimir Zelensky’s memorable address to Congress. But that is everywhere today. Instead, here’s a bit from a tribute by columnist David Ignatius:

Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, likes to quote a comment attributed to Napoleon: “In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.” Zelensky is the embodiment of that everlasting truth.”
Quoted by David Ignatius, Washington Post, 12/21/2022: Continue reading Quotes for the Day →

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Leonard Pitts Retires from writing columns; will write books

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Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Pulitzer Prize-winning national columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. is retiring and wrote his final column Tuesday: “Time flew, didn’t it? Now, it’s time for me to fly off, too.”

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