MICHAEL MORRIS: ‘Getting real’ means working for the common interest
South Africans need to unite to deal with the myriad problems
24 February 2025 - 05:00
It almost seems, now, an event that happened a while ago, but I feel sure that in the intervening days most South Africans have succeeded in mentally shrugging off the absurdity of Washington’s recent idiotic mischaracterisation of our problems.
Nevertheless, I do wonder whether enough people know that while in 2001 there were 313 South Africans employed for every 100 grant recipients, two decades later, in 2023, that first number had plunged from 313 to 62...
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