Every South African citizen wants to see our country succeed, and our people prosper, despite the depths of our national depression.
For us to fix South Africa, we need a Marshall Plan! Not in the sense of copying post-World War Two efforts, but to put a clear plan in place that will give South Africans their marching orders, and to rebuild our collective attitudes toward rebuilding our country.
To that end, we must reimagine our social contract, our politics, and, by extension our economy.
All South Africans must agree to cooperate toward achieving our collective good.
I think all of us, honest South Africans, know that our country is in crisis.
Those who deny it, are those who selfishly profit from the crisis.
In the first instance, our national socio-economic crisis is a direct result of our politics.
In short, there are no thick lines demarcating neat boundaries between the three components of South Africa’s monumental crisis.
Yet it is possible, even necessary to characterise the components distinctly.
Failure to do so, would make the bigger crisis appear dauntingly complex, and therefore insurmountable. However, today I focus on the Economy.
Instead of rallying all citizens to work together, the South African economy inspires national discontent.
The grim iterations of the economic crisis have manifested into violent demonstrations of social dissatisfaction. With the unemployment rate currently standing at about 46.6% fast climbing towards the 50s, and the youth bearing the most brunt at about 74%, it follows that we can a sharp rise in violent protests and xenophobic violence.
Before I get the hairs on your back to stand sharply upright and give you the expected chills…let me once more address my stance on Xenophobia, because I am continuously counted among xenophobic South Africans.
My utterances on the issue of immigration have always been clear and consistent, just that sometimes our society suffers from deliberate selective hearing.
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