The government has largely gone from crisis to crisis without fundamentally dealing with the political and economic root causes of the crises themselves. Lack of trustThe economic crises have enabled and fuelled political crises. This reality underlies the acute crisis of governance and state capture in South Africa, marked by looting and the undermining of public institutions. Taken together, these economic and political crises are eroding confidence in the constitutional dispensation. President Cyril Ramaphosa's sixth state of the nation address outlined plans to remove political obstacles to effective governance and rebuild a "capable state".

Source: News 24 July 25, 2022 06:05 UTC