LETTER: Zuma years will keep haunting us
Steven Friedman should ask why the country was able to move on swiftly from the financial crisis
Steven Friedman’s column on the failure of our current democratic government in its response to the Covid-19 crisis refers (“SA’s skewed democracy throws citizens to the wolves (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2020-07-07-steven-friedman-sas-skewed-democracy-throws-citizens-to-the-wolves/)”, July 7). Because there is no direct (or not big enough) financial aid to most South Africans, according to the professor “the real democratic failure is now, not the Zuma years”.
I must confess that I am no economist, just one of the shrinking millions of law-abiding, taxpaying citizens of this country. However, Friedman’s writing reminds me strongly of opinions continuously shared in Afrikaans newspapers in the Western Cape that the playing fields were levelled in 1994 and everybody competed for whatever society had to offer on an equal footing...
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