Ralph Freese
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Over the last decades I have been engaged with building networks of individuals from a range of businesses, government and civil society on our continent - hoping to facilitate practical and policy interventions in a range of spaces and writing and speaking for small, targeted audiences.
Building hope:
Our political economy can deliver to the poorest. Imagine what we can become if we remove the pressure of scarcity and face the trauma of our past. We have the resources of capital and skills to tackle poverty and joblessness, to rebuild hope, to hold the state to the ideals of the constitution. Opportunities for a […]
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my foundational analysis The South African polity has not failed. We, plainly, in the light of expectations of liberation delivered too little success. Our elections of 1994 and the birth of our constitution in 1996 brought the promise of a deracialized, democratic and wealthier future for all citizens. Democratic, progressive control of the state with […]
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