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Newsrooms should use the Lindsay Dentlinger saga as opportunity for introspection, not arrogance, as race issues do matter, argues the writer.  (Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
Newsrooms should use the Lindsay Dentlinger saga as opportunity for introspection, not arrogance, as race issues do matter, argues the writer. (Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)

Former Cape Times editor Tony Heard weighs in on the Lindsay Dentlinger saga and writes a response to Redi Thlabi and Adriaan Basson, and writes that we must all seek to find one another.

Good luck to those trying to bring some factual sense to a potentially disastrous debate before it erodes our already frayed race relations further.  

Helpful, I thought, were Redi Tlhabi's column recently and, on Monday, Adriaan Basson's. Contrasting, sure, but thoughtfully argued.  

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