South Africa’s challenges are imminently manageable.
The disconnects are complex and they run deep; yet they can be unpacked and dispatched.
The disconnects mostly reside amid the intersection of politics and economics.
People are busy, their reactions to complex social challenges are rarely analysis based, rather they are based on personal values.
People’s values and their views on complex social issues typically reflect the views of groups and centres of influence with whom they associate based on shared values and experiences.
The majority of South Africans place trust in a fractured political party that is morally compromised and that rejects the economic precepts which have pummelled global poverty.
SA’s plight is a failure of political economics.
The country’s economic woes trace to destructive policies which in turn trace to a lack of political accountability.
The core problem is a politically destabilising level of poverty which is entrenched by ill-conceived policies.
Rather than shifting supporting to a solutions-focused political party, the loyalty of the majority of the electorate that is poor is retained through increasingly unsustainable reliance on redistribution programmes.
That this political-economic disconnect is deadlocked is largely explained by SA’s leading voices having misconceived ideas around how poverty has been devastated in all other regions.