LETTER: Blind, failed socialism
Despite its myriad failures the ANC is bent on an all-encompassing NHI
01 December 2019 - 20:23
That economic growth, with its attendant public benefits, can best be achieved through the government, with only a limited role for the capitalist private sector, is an article of faith for the socialists and communists that appear to drive the basic ideals that supposedly underpin ANC policy.
A hundred years of practical experience demonstrated in the Soviet Union, Cuba, collective farming in East Africa and myriad of examples elsewhere have demonstrated clearly that this is simply not so. ..
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