The Beautiful Letdown - Eyes Wide Open - Paperback

by Mugabe Ratshikuni (Author)

Have we as South Africans been let down since democracy in 1994? Throughout this book, the author questions and seeks to provide solutions to many big questions. Topics include:

• Land dispossession and land reform
• Black business and economic transformation
• The state and development
• Democracy and society
• Cadre deployment and the South African state
• State capture

A collection of contemplative and thought-provoking pieces critically looking at contemporary South African issues from both a local and global perspective.

• Insightful and provocative collection of opinion pieces and essays that leave one with more questions and a desire to contribute to the public discourse and to the resolution of our manifold problems as a nation.
• Sharp, analytic, incisive writing that uses the Socratic Method of knowledge acquisition to try and answer some of the most probing questions and challenges that we are faced with as a country.