Tomorrow is Heritage Day and there probably isn’t another country on earth that can claim as many indigenous cultures as South Africa can. We’re a mixed bag of different races, cultures, heritages, and beliefs but we always find a way to stand together, set aside our differences and share in each other’s backgrounds.
From all of us at SAccess we wish you a very happy Heritage Day tomorrow.
But we also share a heritage that is disappointing amongst all the shisanyama and koesister celebrations. We have a culture of crime and corruption in SA and it’s overwhelmingly the worst bit of our heritage.
Cas Coovadia pens a piece for News24 delving into this very subject. Coovadia writes that while we must, indeed, celebrate our heritage this month we must also aspire to take up a new set of ideas and principles for a better South Africa.
Coovadia’s moving words and appeal to be better is worth taking the time to read.
And the fallout from SA’s continued presence on the UK’s ‘amber list’ of countries continues to place a great strain on tourism.
The nonsensical decision to treat South African travellers as unvaccinated even when they have been fully vaccinated will hurt relations between the two countries and SA remains one of the UK’s largest trade partners.
The Financial Mail and Business Day have written engrossing editorials about the mess up the UK’s amber list is causing for SA travellers.
Here’s a roundup of interesting opinions and analyses:
The full slight of the law: South Africa’s demise is enabled by rot from the top, police inertia and ceaseless tides of violence – Judith February, Daily Maverick
ANC’s demise underscores end of ‘liberation era’ – Justice Malala, Financial Mail (for subscribers)
ANC’s one-size-fits-all policies just don’t fit SA – Peter Bruce, Business Day
Tis the season to be whack: ANC talks ‘trust’, DA flirts with Cape ‘independence’ – Pieter du Toit, News24 (for subscribers)
All we hear from Ramaphosa on corruption is sound and fury… signifying nothing – Qaanitah Hunter, News24 (for subscribers)
SA schools are killing fields and it is unacceptable – Jonathan Jansen, Sunday Times Daily
Why the court ruled that the 2018 Mining Charter is policy, not law – Jonathan Veeran, Bruce Dickinson & Rita Spalding, Fin24
