OPINION PIECE: Our beloved SA is once again at risk from politics
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GUEST – Mamokgethi Molopyane - Founder of Creative Voodoo Consulting
Daily, the country moves towards an unknowable future defined by despair and frustrations resulting from the exigencies of poisonous political careerism. The incompetence, greed, corruption and tendency to turn politics into a lifelong career has seen government work reduced to politicking. The country has changed enormously since the advent of the pandemic, presenting the average South African with uncertainty. There has been a significant increase in debt, joblessness, poverty and food costs. The pandemic and its impact on the global economy has also revealed South Africa’s vulnerability to external shocks – and government’s continuation of policy experimentation
Daily, the country moves towards an unknowable future defined by despair and frustrations resulting from the exigencies of poisonous political careerism. The incompetence, greed, corruption and tendency to turn politics into a lifelong career has seen government work reduced to politicking. The country has changed enormously since the advent of the pandemic, presenting the average South African with uncertainty. There has been a significant increase in debt, joblessness, poverty and food costs. The pandemic and its impact on the global economy has also revealed South Africa’s vulnerability to external shocks – and government’s continuation of policy experimentation
