Raising the Bar

South Africa faces enormous challenges brought about by the legacy of its horrible past and the actions of its present. In the twenty years since it joined the community of democratic nations it has come to believe that the ailments of its soul will be solved by state bureaucratic interventions.

While at a material level this may be true, at the core of its failure to successfully confront its demons is a missing, moral and philosophical foundation to the future it wants to build. Desperate to construct a new, positive and uplifting narrative of itself, the country has failed at the task of constructing a society and instead sought to maintain a fragile truce between bitterly competing interests.

It is time for a fresh, unencumbered analysis of why we are the people we have become and the future our present state is building. Uncomfortable and littered with vulnerabilities and problems, this is a task we can no longer delay. It is the only way we shall lay a solid foundation to all that we wish our collective resources should do to make us a prosperous nation.