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How to kill a country

Past leaders are looking pretty good

23 October 2021

9:00 AM

23 October 2021

9:00 AM

Long ago, back in the distant Eighties, the wonderful, witty and luckily enduring cartoonist Mark Knight – yes, he of Serena Williams notoriety – drew a cartoon with some (from memory) South African leader approaching Bob Hawke and saying, ‘I was wanting to know how to destroy an economy and I was told to ask you’.

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