Fixing South Africa: The case for economic deregulation and decentralisation
By Sindile Vabaza
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity…"
This passage from a poem, published in 1920 by WB Yeats and titled The Second Coming, was written at a time just after the First World War when millions of people began to die in the waves of a flu pandemic, which infected Yeats's wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, while she was pregnant. It could reasonably also serve as a succinct portrait of what South Africa has over the years slowly fallen under the ever more corrupt, rent seeking and capricious leadership of the ruling party.
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