JUSTICE MALALA | The public’s inflation threshold is now amber. How long before it turns red?
In the precarious economic situation South Africa finds itself in, what is the possibility of cost-of-living riots?
23 April 2023 - 19:46
Twenty-nine years into South Africa’s democracy, I should be writing a column celebrating nearly three decades of progress. Here I am, instead, wondering why our people have not gone out to the streets, angry and desperate, because their lives are getting harder (record unemployment, inequality and poverty stalk the land) while their leaders’ corruption and lack of empathy get worse...
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