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Doctors and nurses of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade take part in a farewell ceremony before travelling to Andorra to help in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, at the Central Unit of Medical Cooperation in Havana, on March 28, 2020. (Photo by Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images)
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Political pragmatism is required to survive Covid-19

Political ideologies — communism, capitalism, liberalism — and an unrealistic view of the world as we’d like it to be got us into this mess

  • Quentin du Plessis
16 min read
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CORONAVIRUS

An unprecedented crisis: The economic ramifications of Covid-19

The ways in which we respond to the coronavirus pandemic will determine the world that greets us when we emerge from lockdown

  • Quentin du Plessis
9 min read
As South Africans, we have seen in the early years of our democracy what innate good the country and its people possess (Gallo)
ATLANTIC OCEAN

The South African nation does not exist

There is no deep comradeship, common ancestry or monopoly on the legitimate use of force

  • Quentin du Plessis
10 min read