We need a government and state committed to public and private sector reforms that results in increased share in the country’s wealth and social norms that preserve the dignity of all.
Tessa DoomsPeople of poor communities such as Diepsloot, north of Johannesburg, endure conditions that compound their poverty while the state can use its policies to change the situation.I have often argued that SA needs to mobilise around a common set of goals for the future, rather than to endlessly seek a common enemy. Inequality, however, offers us a clear common enemy if that is truly what we need to exchange inaction with radical solidarity.
We further experience inequality in pay gaps along the lines of race and gender. Unequal access to opportunities like jobs and business support are compounded by social divisions and the continued burdens of care work disproportionately placed on women at the expense of opportunities for education or career development.
While social grants are heralded as government’s greatest success in alleviating poverty, tax incentives, short-term public employment programmes and some entrepreneurial support have become the best markers of efforts to redress unemployment. What remains elusive is a clear and bold plan to address and reverse inequality, economically and socially.
While black economic empowerment programmes were designed with redistribution in mind, its failures have been well documented as overly relying on the goodwill of trickle-down economics at best and at worst the power of corrupt patronage networks. We need a government and state committed to public and private sector reforms that results in increased share in the countryThere are three policies and programmes that those who govern much revisit and enact. First, we must rethink social protection. It can no longer be a stop-gap measure.
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