Facing the grim facts of poverty Only the right policies can change the wildly unequal path which South Africa finds itself treading WHAT a crying shame that another Freedom Day has come and gone, and apart from the obligatory political speeches, has passed by with little fuss and fanfare. BLACKS and coloured in South Africa are special groups. They don't have the same resources as whites and Indians (remember Pravin Gordhan) to protect or care for themselves, even 23 years after independence. That is partly why there is now the movement for radical social and economic transformation. Though an average black or coloured person in South Africa may not be the worst in Africa, the disparity between the country's wealth and the conditions for most of the blacks and coloureds are unparalleled. Sadly, the government has not lived up to its obligations. South Africa, with its cherished image of a "rainbow nation" after a miraculous ...
