Nhlanhla Nene and Pravin Gordhan — PICTURE: GCIS Our problem is not that we are in the midst of a crisis — it is that we are not. Because, those who talked about a need to change society only a year ago now want only a change in political leaders.Saying that we need a crisis sounds odd in a country in which people constantly throw the word about. It becomes less odd when we remember what "crisis" originally meant. While today it is often used to talk about calamities (particularly in this country), it originally meant "turning point" or "a time when difficult decisions must be taken". In the early 1990s, there was a real sense of crisis here — just about everyone with influence believed we needed to change course and there was heated debate on what we should do. It was this which produced a new constitution.Now we have much talk of calamity, but very little on changing course. And so we have placed on hold the difficult discussions that could lead the country out of a cul de sac. Th...
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