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South Africa’s ongoing and worsening mass unemployment stems from a deliberate, market-friendly, and pro-business economic consensus that has proven ineffective over the past 30 years.
South Africa does not lack wealth. It lacks power in the hands of the majority.
The announcements in the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) about a lower inflation target and cuts to public expenditure in real terms will exacerbate material insecurity and worsen developmental outcomes.
The National Dialogue is incapable of addressing the structural roots of inequality, unemployment and state collapse.
South Africa remains a society of two nations, one for the wealthy (Black and white) and another for the impoverished Black majority.
South Africa is indeed a sick patient. But neoliberalism is not the cure. It is the disease.
The National Dialogue cannot be allowed to become a containment strategy for the political elite.
As South Africa works towards equitable land reform, the effectiveness of the Land Court in addressing historical injustices is crucial for redress.
Polarising ideological polemics, which shed more heat than light, should be avoided at all costs.