DUMA GQUBULE: SA faces ‘the fierce urgency of now’
The country must get 11.9-million people to work urgently
08 August 2023 - 05:00
After 29 years of democracy and the mismanagement of the economy, SA cannot afford what Martin Luther King Jnr referred to as “the tranquillising drug of gradualism”.
In his historic 1963 speech at the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom”, King spoke about the need to remind America about “the fierce urgency of now”. South Africans must understand the scale of its economic crisis and the “fierce urgency of now”. Getting 11.9-million people to work is the equivalent of a war effort. ..
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