Corruption is main obstacle to reconciliation, annual survey finds

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The dark veil of corruption is still hanging over SA, shattering public confidence in the country's leaders.

This emerged in the 2019 Reconciliation Barometer, launched in Cape Town on Thursday by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Potgieter said breaking reconciliation down into different components highlighted the fact that “if there are different ways we can work towards it, it feels a little less overwhelming”. The research found a big gap between those who see reconciliation as necessary , and those who feel they have experienced it .

He said that from 2006 to today, “it has been a big backwards step and those are the things we have to interrogate lest we create false positive stories. Confidence levels are still very low.

 

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