FRAGILITY INDEX
Alliance of leaders bent on saving SA could be our nation’s only hope
We need a centrist government committed to nonracialism and social reconstruction to dig us out of our pit
In Fate of the Nation, Jakkie Cilliers of the Institute for Security Studies described the "Bafana Bafana scenario" as a chronically underachieving, second-division SA despite flashes of brilliance and indications of considerable potential. But our depressing current state of affairs is actually worse — SA is thrashing around in the political shallows, full of sound and fury, signifying … disaster. Yes, Cyril Ramaphosa narrowly squeaked into power, but the governing ANC and SA remain largely entrapped by race-based slogans and outmoded ideologies, a self-serving history and political opportunism. All of this feeds into a stuttering economy that ensures a win-lose political space and thus more of the same in future. The optimistic days post-1994 seem to belong to a parallel universe. Besides the social indicators we see around us, there is abundant objective evidence of our rudderless drift. Quoting from the World Bank report on poverty and inequality in SA, the Centre for Developmen...
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