Social cohesion seems more absent than ever amid rising food prices and unemployment
President Cyril Ramaphosa lifted the state of disaster on Monday. Picture: GCIS
Meanwhile, the fuse is burning on the powder keg. Food prices are soaring, unemployment has hit a historic high, experts predict an imminent fifth wave of Covid-19 and supporters of Operation Dudula stalk the streets targeting migrants. Social cohesion seems more absent than ever. The drill-down into other essential food items in the survey shows the prices of basic items have soared year on year, with cooking oil , chicken livers and butternut , among many other double-digit increases across a range of basic food products. For all food in their household basket the increase year on year was more than 10%, far outstripping inflation.
We can find no evidence that this has happened or is happening. We can only hope it is, in fact, on and is being slowly nurtured in conversations and agreements away from the spotlight, and that the failure is one of communication and not of application. There is too much at stake for the latter.
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