Hard statistics confirm what many South Africans feel — that the country is sliding backwards. Though there are areas of progress, there is more bad news than good.
An annual report by the Bureau for Economic Research , assessing SA’s progress towards achieving its development objectives, makes for bleak reading: the country has regressed in many more areas than it has improved over the past few years.
Some of the deterioration — especially in areas such as trade, tourism, and health care — clearly reflect the impact of the pandemic. But this doesn’t explain a general downward drift in perceptions of the effectiveness of the police, the quality of governance and the rule of law...
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