LETTER: Where are SA’s vital milestones?
The ANC is unwilling or unable to learn from history
President Cyril Ramaphosa shared an appealing Easter message on Good Friday. We should all work together in tolerance and acceptance. That is indeed what we must do. It is encapsulated in the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
In a different context, on Human Rights Day on March 21 Ramaphosa spelt out the aspirations of the governing party: create a better society than the one we came from in 1994. The ANC has often fleshed out this dream: good education; good healthcare; full (or at least high) employment. This is motherhood and apple pie: great for those who have it, but how do we get there? Ordinary mortals — but not, apparently, the ANC — feel constrained to provide some measurable parameters, milestones on the road to happiness. Parameters like the size of the economy and the building of a skills base. Where are our milestones?..
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