PETER BRUCE: In the smarts we trust to get us out of the hole politicians dug
Amid our seeming final collapse into societal failure, credible voices are saying SA’s fortunes are turning
A good mix of confidence and ignorance, Mark Twain once said, is what a man needs to get through life. I half remembered the quote because it is quite startling how, now, in the depths of what would seem to be our final collapse into irreversible societal failure, there are credible voices out there saying “no, now is precisely when you can see SA’s fortunes turning”.
The most listenable, for me, has been Frans Cronje, former boss of the Institute of Race Relations and now the master of his own institution, the Social Research Foundation (SRF). I have just re-listened to an interview he gave to Alec Hogg in late July. “I could make for you,” Cronje said then, “a very sound case that SA’s prospects are looking up.”..
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