The Beautiful Letdown - Eyes Wide Open (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781067252328)

Have we as South Africans been let down since democracy in 1994? Throughout this book, the author questions and seeks to provide solutions to many big questions. Topics include:

• Land dispossession and land reform
• Black business and economic transformation
• The state and development
• Democracy and society
• Cadre deployment and the South African state
• State capture

A collection of contemplative and thought-provoking pieces critically looking at contemporary South African issues from both a local and global perspective.

• Insightful and provocative collection of opinion pieces and essays that leave one with more questions and a desire to contribute to the public discourse and to the resolution of our manifold problems as a nation.
• Sharp, analytic, incisive writing that uses the Socratic Method of knowledge acquisition to try and answer some of the most probing questions and challenges that we are faced with as a country.