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I am not much surprised by the audacity of former president Jacob Zuma when he laments his unfinished business in our the country.

When I read about all the promises of considerable increases in social grants and salaries of domestic workers, it is clear that the country will be doomed to fail in no time.

In life, there is information that appears to be simple and insignificant and yet it serves invaluable implications in the most desperate of times. This is emergency information.

What does freedom mean to South Africans? For the previously disadvantaged it means political rights, participation in the rights and privileges of their country of birth and that they can lift up their heads and look the world squarely in the eyes as equals.

By admitting that he "was duped" in being conferred with an honourary doctorate from a bogus university, Zwelinzima Vavi should be congratulated for honesty and integrity because virtually none of such conferees would so publicly acknowledge it.