JONATHAN JANSEN | To Ace change, SA must step aside from believing empty words
Words and phrases such as decolonisation and radical economic transformation have been bastardised
31 March 2021 - 19:43
South Africans are like Pentecostals. We repeat a word, a phrase, an acronym over and over until it has lost all meaning and simply becomes part of our belief system. In the process, we fall into the trap of thinking the word speaks reality into existence...
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