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We cannot keep buying our way out of a broken South Africa

We cannot keep buying our way out of a broken South Africa

By GhanaSummary NewsroomSouth Africa

We pay taxes to support public education, healthcare, infrastructure and safety, only to use what remains of our income to purchase private alternatives because we have lost confidence in the public ones.

Yet many of us have become exceptionally good at finding private solutions to public problems, rather than demanding that the institutions responsible for those problems fulfil their mandate.

We cannot continue building islands of private comfort while the public foundations beneath us deteriorate.

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