The trajectory of the country remains downward toward failure, but we are not there yet, and we don’t need to go there either. But it is hard to trust a government that allows widespread corruption with impunity to continue.
We have had plague , pestilence and now floods , but politicians will tell you that the three main issues facing the country today are poverty, unemployment and inequality. All three are attributable, at least in part, to rampant serious corruption with impunity.
“In its terminal form, a state fails when it implodes, leaving only a shell. Max Weber defined the state as the entity that possesses ‘a monopoly on the legitimate use of force’. This is a vital part of any definition of the state, but modern usage stretches the definition to incorporate the idea of sovereignty over a territory. Others insist that the idea of the state embodies a commitment as the ‘institutional representation of the people’s will’.
“It is generally reckoned that constitutions that survive for 20 years have put down roots that render them resistant to destruction. But there are exceptions. A danger South Africa faces is less the abolition of the Constitution than its being hollowed out, that is, its key independent institutions being staffed by politically ‘reliable’ people. The judiciary may be a prime candidate, followed by the public protector.
Corruption is a crime, but is not treated as criminal in SA. If there was any apprehension among the corrupt that they will be caught, investigated, prosecuted, tried and punished, there would be considerably less corruption in SA than the levels that have undermined the trust of the public and of possible investors in SA. The main factor keeping new investment out of SA is the high levels of corruption with impunity that undermine business confidence.
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