YACOOB ABBA OMAR: How the blame game makes things worse than it is
The most important foundation laid for the future is the extent of the social security system
19 April 2023 - 05:00
Browsing through Hans Rosling’s book Factfulness I realised how desperately SA needs a comprehensive study that objectively captures the state of progress since 1994.
The Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection’s (Mistra’s) recently released Macro-Social Report comes close to that. Spoiler alert: it makes for grim reading about the current context while capturing pithily the advances made during our three decades of democracy. ..
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