INEQUALITY
BOOK REVIEW: Mark Heywood contends while others look on
Heywood picks apart the impossible compromise between rapacious capitalism and equality guaranteed in SA’s Constitution
GET UP! STAND UP! Personal Journeys Towards Social Justice Mark Heywood Tafelberg In the DNA of capitalism is inequality. In the DNA of SA’s Constitution is equality. However will they reconcile? Can they? If you are middle class, Mark Heywood is the kind of activist you may think twice about inviting to dinner. These are the kinds of questions with which he would doubtless harangue you. He would take note of the large sag in your armchair’s cushion, depressed by decades of self-interested indolence. He would glimpse your slightly shamed face as he takes in your collection of gewgaws, more evidence of your wilful blindness to the millions of people crushed by want. Heywood would stir your dawdling conscience still further. He would persuade you to give your favourite armchair to someone who doesn’t have one. Sell your gewgaws and donate all proceeds to ensure school children get a textbook. He would invite you to work out a plan of action: next steps to achieving social justice. As ...
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