Economy on a slippery slope

RECENTLY, I wrote that a country can never create a sustainable socioeconomic system if it is based on lies.
Colonialism was based on lies and its foundations crumbled because of pressure on the economy.

Vince Musewe

This is exactly the situation we face now; the economy is speaking on our behalf — it did so in 2008 and, thanks to Thabo Mbeki, freedom was sabotaged and postponed.

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