JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: There’s a gaping hole in the redistribution bucket
Taxpayers are up in arms at the amount of corruption, grand theft and overall state inefficiency involved in assisting the poor
19 March 2025 - 05:00
South Africans have reached the point where they disagree on a key pillar of the postapartheid framework: those with the financial means are taxed and the money is used to help cushion and possibly uplift the poor.
This pillar is key because of the nature of SA’s capitalist democracy, which professes political and social egalitarianism while — in US economist Arthur Okun’s words — “generating gaping disparities in economic wellbeing”. ..
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