Intensifying economic insecurity may threaten South Africa's social cohesion
Intensifying economic insecurity may threaten South Africa’s social cohesion 16 Feb 2021 The country’s social fibre is under strain and one cannot help but feel that something will have to give. (David Harrison/M&G) A brutal pandemic, anaemic growth, huge job losses and an increasingly austere state have converged to create a sense of perpetual anxiety among millions of South Africans. When it struck, the country was ill-prepared to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic. Poor service delivery, weak oversight institutions and a depleted fiscus ensured that the state’s social capital was at an ...
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