{"product_id":"9780143530411","title":"Conversations with my sons and daughters","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Where did we lose our idealism and why and at what cost?'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these conversations with people of a younger generation Mamphela Ramphele responds to the growing despair among young South Africans about the cracks that are appearing in our system of governance and threatening the idealism of the country that reinvented itself with the dawn of democracy in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe shows incisively how successive post-apartheid ANC governments have betrayed the nation for a culture of impunity among those close to the seat of power, where corruption goes unremarked and accountability has been swept aside. Enduring poverty, inequity and a failing public service, most notably in health and education, are the results.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Mamphela+Ramphele\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eMamphela Ramphele\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mamphela Ramphele","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375733915811,"sku":"9780143530411","price":190.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9780143530411_46294972-0a97-4d08-843f-f28277a8eadc.jpg?v=1776455805","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9780143530411","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}