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Durban Notebook: a nation in paralysis

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

20 October 2018

9:00 AM

No one likes uncertainty and in Britain we’ve got more than our fair share. But spare a thought for South Africa, where the uncertainty is in danger of morphing into national paralysis. ‘What are your plans for the future?’ I ask a friend who lives near Durban. ‘We have no plans.

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