Instead of relying on an overburdened fiscus, there should be a national effort, relying on private-public partnerships, to finance and ensure the underpinning of our own national flag, writes Tony Heard.
Flag politics can unify or divide. In South Africa, they should not be allowed to disturb our tattered national unity further. Rows over flags are invariably damaging to achieving progressive objectives. Ours in South Africa are already in over-short supply.
That is one pertinent message from the outcry over a massive and towering R22-million national flag that was optimistically planned for Freedom Park to rise high above Pretoria.