Being Green - 20 October 2017
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It’s all been about the poor performance of our economy, slow growth, you name it. A week of painful introspection, no matter how Malusi Gigaba dresses up his words or indeed his person with designer suits and spectacles.
There is a lot of talk, comment, on how the economy could be vamped up, efficiencies increased, corruption rooted out. There must be hope for a better deal in the future. What are politicians without hope? Most commentators say there’s nothing much that the Minister can offer, as we’re tied to the current model of the market, selling of minerals and a bit of agricultural produce – in short the same thing as before.
But wait, say the alternative society protagonists – it’s time for a new socio-economic paradigm.
Paradigm? One of those fashionable words that make you sound clever – it simply means model of how things work. Let’s change the paradigm of society and the economy says the A I D C, the Alternative Information and Development Centre.
There is a lot of talk, comment, on how the economy could be vamped up, efficiencies increased, corruption rooted out. There must be hope for a better deal in the future. What are politicians without hope? Most commentators say there’s nothing much that the Minister can offer, as we’re tied to the current model of the market, selling of minerals and a bit of agricultural produce – in short the same thing as before.
But wait, say the alternative society protagonists – it’s time for a new socio-economic paradigm.
Paradigm? One of those fashionable words that make you sound clever – it simply means model of how things work. Let’s change the paradigm of society and the economy says the A I D C, the Alternative Information and Development Centre.
