South Africa is fast approaching a watershed moment as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan prepares for his inaugural budget policy statement next month. In his October medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) Mr Gordhan forecast a consolidated budget deficit of R184bn (or 7.6 per cent of GDP). He said that in 2008
He who controls the present controls the past,
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell
In spite of the general assumption in the essay, What is Truth? that there is an external reality which does not yield to our wishes and is not affected by our beliefs, there is a
We are all used to hearing people say, everything is relative, by which they usually mean that, in their opinion, there are no standards of right and wrong, or of quality, and anybody can do anything they like without fear of the consequences. There may be a case to be
