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The unwelcome truth about the Rainbow Nation

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Almost 30 years after political freedom was won, South Africa is severely damaged and broken. As its leaders and citizens celebrated Freedom Day, the Rainbow Nation is on the verge of financial, infrastructural, reputational, social and moral collapse.

It is easy and not entirely incorrect to blame the terrible state of the nation on the horribly inefficient implementation of the ANC’s socio-economic policies, its devastating leadership deficiencies and the ever-creep of its corrupt ways.

But there is a more fundamental problem, which ordinary South African citizens have failed to face up to for almost three decades now, and which leaders of

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