Is the European dream over?
Friday, December 09, 2011
On the surface, Europe's current crisis, which some people predict will tear apart the European Union, is financial.
Jacques Delors, one of the architects of the euro, now claims that his idea for a single currency was good, but that its "execution" was flawed, because the weaker countries were allowed to borrow too much.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...