Opinion

Amandla a wethu! Hee hee

At first, “empowering” a million-odd people by flogging them cheap stock in a sector that is becoming familiar with bankruptcy law sounded like an evil scheme. But maybe it`s not such a bad idea.

02 February 2003

“The music is reversible, but time is not.” So goes a famous “backward masking” line on an old Black Sabbath album. Wish it were, for then one might have been able to go back to the time of the first telecommunications Green Paper in 1995, and bolster policy criticism with: “I`ve seen the future, and it doesn`t work.”

Now the future is here for all to see.

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