Thuli Madonsela: Invest in the South Africa we want

SA needs to find congruence between the noble promise of the Constitution and the lived reality of the majority, writes Thuli MadonselaThis thought hit me on reading the much-venerated budget presented by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni.

The truth is that VAT is an anti-poor regressive revenue collection system, even when a few items are insulated from it.But how are we faring strategically, in investing in congruence with the constitutional vision and promises?Judge Dennis Davis believes that we are not putting our money and policy choices where our constitutional vision expects us to go.

There is no question that in the past 26 years we have built a sound constitutional democracy which has confounded the prophets of doom who thought that one person, one vote would never work in the plural society that South Africa is.

Many had expected President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state of the nation address to mark a shift towards addressing this hunger for congruence between the constitutional dream and people’s lived reality. What I and my colleagues at the Siyazakhela Thuma Enterprising Communities initiative and at the Social Justice M-Plan think-tank would have loved to hear is what we plan to do regarding investing in understanding and eradicating poverty and legacy inequality.

We must concede that if we don’t speedily come up with a formula that will undo the social and economic architecture we inherited from years of legalised injustice and inept policy choices, coupled with corruption since the dawn of democracy, we risk losing the rule of law and social cohesion.

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