PATRICK BULGER | From amandla to amen: Jesus is coming very soon for the ANC
Brace yourselves, South Africans, to say goodbye to predictable politics and hello to the uncertainties of populism
04 November 2021 - 20:18
It’s quite possible that in ascending the mount of democracy in 1994 we became bedazzled by our achievement, forgetting the words of Nelson Mandela when he said: “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more to climb.’’ We thought a new, liberal constitution would be enough to put SA irrevocably on a trajectory of democracy and, inevitably, prosperity. We forgot there’d be other, steeper, hills to climb. One of them is called reality...
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