LETTER: SA needs a brains trust
A brains trust is required to come up with a solution to avoid a socioeconomic and political abyss
SA has been controlled by a succession of self-interested groups. Since 1994 the ANC has been looting the public purse of untold billions of rands. The ANC unseated the National Party to appoint their surrogates to key positions and open the floodgates to large-scale tender rigging and corruption. The ANC has inflicted serious damage to the health of the economy, with devastating consequences for many millions of people. Poverty and crime are everywhere; businesses are failing; joblessness statistics are “through the roof” and, despite enormous spending on public education and health, standards and service levels continue downwards. SA has fallen ignominiously from its position of “economic standard-bearer of Africa” — from economic growth to being in a “technical recession”. The hopes for a better future for current and future generations look bleak . The country was destined to be a trail-blazer in 1994. Nelson Mandela placed us firmly on the road to being a nation of special peop...
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