Given our history of human rights abuses, we wanted a dispensation that would protect individual human rights and, therefore, the wide Bill of Rights as espoused in the Constitution. However, it seems that, in focusing on civil and political rights at the expense of economic development, we may have swung the pendulum too far. COURT ACTIONSOur liberal democratic laws, which place individual human and political rights above economic interests, are hindering economic development. DEMOCRACYCivil and political liberties are important aspects of human development but it is important to consider how these decisions affect economic growth. Until a country has reached a certain level of economic empowerment, he says, democracy could propel internal conflicts that undermine economic development.

Source: Daily Nation September 12, 2017 20:26 UTC