Our Inheritance

Abstract

THE NEW South AFRICA has inherited a context in which no real economic growth per capita has occurred since 1964, no real job growth has taken place for a decade, an extremely unhealthy level of national indebtedness exists, and a crime wave threatens to destroy hopes of a prosperous future.

"Yes, it is the dawn that has come. The titihoya wakes fromsleep . . . the sun tips with light the mountains oflngeli and East Griqualand. The great valley of Umzimkulu is still in darkness, but the light will come there. For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand years never failing.But when that dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret."

ALAN PATON — CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY