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Reading an article by Mashudu Sadike on the front page of the Mercury today (May 27, 2025), I realised that the ANC and certain other religious groups have an absolute obsession with this case. Despite clear evidence that farmers are being attacked and murdered here in South Africa, there is still this narrative that Israel is a genocidal nation, while more people die daily in South Africa than in Gaza. On the other hand, the White Farmer murde…See the Story

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Beyond good and bad guys: The complexity of South African history

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