The Beautiful Letdown - Eyes Wide Open

<p>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:</p><ul><li>Land dispossession and land reform</li><li>Black business and economic transformation</li><li>The state and development</li><li>Democracy and society</li><li>Cadre deployment and the South African state</li><li>State capture</li></ul><p>A collection of contemplative and thought-provoking pieces critically looking at contemporary South African issues from both a local and global perspective.</p><ul><li>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.</li><li>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.</li></ul>