Let terms like white supremacy, extermination and genocide remain where they lie buried – long ago and far away.
OPINION
How would a government determined to exterminate its indigenous population behave? Ask the Namibians. Or, more specifically, ask the descendants of the Herero people.
Namibia, formerly the colony of German South-West Africa, became a mandated territory of the Union of South Africa (a British dominion) following the First World War, before winning its independence (with Cuban military assistance) from the apartheid-driven Republic of South Africa in 1990.
While the rapidly changing and unprecedented fortunes of One Nation make for exciting politics, there are still plenty of opportunities for this support to dissipate.
There is a conspiracy operating here, but it’s not a new one: it’s the attempt by powerful men to hide from their wives, and the world, what they like doing with powerless young women.
Will the Liberals or One Nation fade away: or is there a third winning possibility?
By announcing an inquiry into the Reserve Bank’s handling of monetary policy in the time of Covid, Nicola Willis has come up with potentially highly effective solution to National’s electoral problems.
It is a lazy slur with no merit in political discourse. It is tiresome and it is pointless. Time to stop calling everything racist.
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By nightfall, after nearly 12 hours in custody, he was released under caution with more questions to come. The magnitude of his fall from grace seemed etched on his face.
