By: Sterling Ferguson
@Molefe, the people in SA can’t elect their leaders and hold them accountable for their behavior. You should be calling for the reform of the political system to give the people a voice in the...
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@Gareth Setati – As you were kind enough to refer to an article of mine that explores our problems, I am encouraged to include a link to another that perhaps moves us closer to the solution(s) you...
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@Sterling Ferguson – As an aside, I hadn’t read your comment when I posted my second one here and want to acknowledge that you are making the same sort of point as Gareth and I.
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@Tofolux: The post-1994 Utopia was mostly sold by the ANC! Practical reason (from understanding economics, governance, the realistic delays before good(!) educational reforms take effect, etc.) made it...
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@jandro, allow me to correct your obvious mistake. My point about Utopia is made PRE 1994 and most definitely not post. Suggest you conceptualise that thought and come back to me.
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@Tofolux: Accepted. Then allow me to still say that the ANC were the #1 purveyors of a post-1994 Utopia. And then all of what I said above still holds: Either the ANC is still moral, but certainly...
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@Jandoe, there you go again. Be responsible and do the right thing and correct your obvious mistake. Your reply simply cannot hold because the premise on which you based it, is wrong. It cannot be that...
View ArticleBy: Brian B
The whole world is suffering from a drought in quality leadership. In good times politicians are left much to their own devices. Only when things get tough do people sit up and take notice. Much of the...
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@Brian B, you are saying the same thing that I have been saying for a long time. The post apartheid SA is not a democracy like the ANC would like people to believe. The masses couldn’t elect their...
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A very fine article that asks what we all have to become ‘active citizens’ for. http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2012/12/05/changing-south-africa-starts-with-a-better-government
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