ANDILE KHUMALO: We need inclusivity, not high walls
Inequality is the single biggest threat to our constitutional democracy
This week the Western Cape branch of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants in Southern Africa (Abasa) held its annual dinner to celebrate all the black candidates in the region who had passed their board exams to qualify as chartered accountants. The theme of this year's celebration was "Impactful Economic Development", and Advocate Thuli Madonsela and I were invited to share our perspectives on how young professionals can play their part in driving economic development that can positively affect the society they live in. I could totally see why advocate Madonsela was the perfect lead in this conversation, given her recent fellowship at Harvard University in Boston and her chair in social justice at Stellenbosch University's law faculty, focusing on accelerating the pace of what she calls "achieving the constitutional promise of an inclusive society based in social justice, shared prosperity, friendship and peace". As for why they invited me, I suspect Abasa had g...
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