Traders in Ashanti region closing shops to protest higher taxes. Sad. We do need the tax, but must be balanced against the overall cost of doing business, which currently is abnormally high.
We cannot accept the unending waves of xenophobic attacks in South Africa which is but a painful betrayal of the African solidarity against apartheid.
Perhaps it is time to relocate the Pan-African Parliament to another country. SA has lost every moral justification to keep it.