The governing party cannot expect a social compact to hold where 12 years of governance has us hurtling towards junk status
because the ANC government has failed the citizenry. A social compact is between the citizenry and government. The citizenry grants the government rights in return for obligations to provide the citizenry with certain benefits.says Cyril Ramaphosa tends to look towards more social compacting to solve the problem of social cohesion, but he has actually been extremely poor at building the social compact;-sounding but repeated and vacuous sentiments are not what builds a social compact.
The EFF relishes destroying the social compact. Everything it does is aimed at destroying the social compact. De Klerknegative response to whether apartheid was a crime against humanity was manna from heaven for the EFFreminded him of how much “white work” was urgently needed among white South Africans. That’s not going to advance a social compact.social compact between the government, labour, big business and “the community”.
That is not to say there shouldn’t be co-operation between various stakeholders, but there are unlikely to be any compacts between those promoting a command economy and those promoting a market economy.JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an e-mail with your comments. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Send your letter by e-mail to
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