JOHN STEENHUISEN: Reject SA’s socialist slide
With the economy at a precipice, we can’t afford socialist flights of fancy. The only option now is liberal democracy
25 March 2021 - 05:00
While the world’s last few pockets of socialism slowly come to terms with the inevitable failure of this ideology and have started reversing some of their policies, our ANC government is pretending not to see any of this.
It still has every intention of pursuing its vision of a socialist utopia, as though we’re still in the mid-20th century and the Soviet Union is stronger than ever. In recent years, countries like Venezuela, Cuba and Zimbabwe have all taken steps to undo some of the devastation caused by their flirtation with this ideology...
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