Twenty-five years into democracy and SA continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. In May, Time magazine examined SA as the world’s most unequal country.
A recent article by advocate Thuli Madonsela highlighted the factors key to “the mess of the enormity of our social disparities”. Among other desperate realities is that GDP and GDP per capita is languishing, unemployment — especially among the youth — is at record levels and social unrest is growing...
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