Instead of dreaming, give every child a birth bonanza

President Cyril Ramaphosa made a soaring speech a week ago to a Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation conference in the Drakensberg on inclusive growth. "If we are to liberate ourselves from the shackles of the past and the troubles of the present," he intoned, "we must be prepared to dream. "We imagine a country where no one is afraid to walk the streets at night, where families sleep peacefully and all pay tax knowing that their hard-earned money will be well spent and properly accounted for.