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Posted inMedia, News/Politics

Voting is not enough: Beyond the ‘good story/bad story’ debate

Suntosh Pillay by Suntosh Pillay 2 May 2014

It is easy to be an extremist. Taking a blind, one-sided, all-or-nothing viewpoint on an issue allows you to skip the nuance, texture, and blurry greyness of debates. South Africa’s “good story/bad story” debate has politicians locking horns as the extremities in political speeches now surface. Poet Maya Angelou once mused that, “all great achievements […]

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