“The more things change, the more they remain the same.” This locution by the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr is a truism to help us make sense of the paralysis we are experiencing in this country. A week after the ANC lekgotla (meeting), we have heard no viable prescriptions, and the sojourn at Davos has brought zero returns to a presidency that boasts about its record on foreign direct investment.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s was not driven by its inability to match the military capabilities of its nemesis, the US, but rather the inability of the Soviet Czarists at the Kremlin to explain the contradictions of their “superior ideology” to the people on the ground. The people had had enough of the blatant lack of opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their children...
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