Letter: Ebrahim Harvey correct but short on analysis
A Codesa-like summit should seek common ground in a nonracist, conservative and compassionate party
Ebrahim Harvey’s profound article analysing the reasons for our continuing journey towards a failed state is a hugely useful contribution but sadly perpetuates the vacuum of opinion from political commentators as to how to reverse SA’s fortunes (“Why postapartheid SA is unravelling (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/life/2021-05-11-big-read-why-post-apartheid-sa-is-unravelling/)”, May 11).
Certainly, we need to understand why we are in such a shambles, and Harvey’s article demonstrably does that. But more importantly and urgently we need expert political analysts to focus on solutions rather than historical analysis. These solutions must surely be found in reconstructing our fragmented political environment in a way that a strong, healthy whole emerges, greater than the sum of its weak and failing parts...
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