This week was a darkly surreal one for the world as we know it. Humanity took a battering from the highest echelons of global power, all the way to starving children, dying before the eyes of the world. And, for some of us, the whole thing brought on a sense of helplessness and not a little fear.
In the White House, Donald Trump hosted the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa. Both men are in their 70s. When they were young, Ramaphosa’s life was dominated by the fight against Apartheid, in which people of colour were legally second-class citizens in their own country.
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