(Re)building a capable state is possible. Here’s what it will require
In his column of October 1, Sunday Times editor S'thembiso Msomi submits (https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/opinion/2023-10-01-it-feels-like-the-government-has-given-up-on-recovery/) that it feels like the government has given up on recovery. He “laments” that since 2007 “building a capable state has been a popular phrase ... yet on close examination, the state capacity to do anything has been eroding ever since” and “this is not how you (re) build a 'capable state'.” In his rendition, Msomi interrogates the resolve to build a capable state. As a rejoinder, this submission asks, can we (re)build a capable state?..
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