Grabbing land and money will only serve to increase misery in our country
Delegates at the ANC policy conference at Nasrec in Johannesburg. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA/FINANCIAL MAIL
It is a tangible, immutable perspective. The proponents of the motions to take back the land, nationalise the Reserve Bank and raise hundreds of billions of rand from the rich hark back to a world where nothing changes, and the way to get ahead is to plunder your neighbour. The role of any state should be to guide and provide a framework for the infinitely complex interactions in this societal network, much as the human frame nurtures and carries the quarter of a million kilometres of blood vessels in the body, and the equivalent neurological pathways.
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