WHEN elephants fight, it is the grass that usually suffers the most, says an African proverb.
It's easy to grasp meaning is so appropriate for many of the news events that are gathering viral attention presently.
Both the World Wars showed that the superpowers flexed their muscles with wanton disregard, military precision and caused massive devastation and destruction at every turn.
Spare a thought for the commoners from all the nations involved who didn’t care diddly squat about the issues the political top brass and business elite of the day grappled over – they just wanted to get on with life.
Yet they were mostly the ones who suffered in a range of ways.
These days, the battlegrounds have changed in many ways and skirmishes do not always happen over…
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Star South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2025-03-20