Weekend Argus Saturday

There can be no equality without redistribution

THE only way to understand how South Africa continues to be scarred by such profound inequality is by remembering how long apartheid endured. The finest Constitution in the world seems to be of little help, and our militant pre-1994 leadership is now part of the establishment. We are living on borrowed time.

Inequalities erode the stretched social fabric that we committed to building after the defeat of apartheid; the elephant in the room is always the question of redistribution.

South Africa’s redistributive

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