South Africa’s Second Chance
Extracts from Eddy Maloka, 2024 Book: “South Africa’s Second Chance”
A crisis is a moment in history when the old can no longer hold, when something new has to happen. The old ways of doing things no longer work. The status quo is at a saturation point. The continuing persistence of things as they are only leads to decline, stagnation, degeneration, and eventually, to implosion and total collapse. Its ideological manifestation is a state of confusion, panic, anxiety, uncertainty, demoralisation, and also a moment for zealots, and populists to show off their opportunism. Its other face is a crisis in diversity management demonstrated by phenomena such as the rise of racial nationalism and xenophobia.
… South Africa exhibits these features of a crisis. Time for change has come, this change is inevitable. But we must manage it to our advantage, otherwise our country will collapse under the heavy weight of uncontrollable forces of history. We must be proactive to seize the moment presented to us by history. We must establish a Second Republic to replace the compromise post-apartheid dispensation we created in 1994. Our approach should not be piecemeal – about land, the judiciary or this and that. Instead, we should be bold and decisive and overhaul the entire dispensation to align it with our times. The time for the Second Republic is now!
History is the best teacher. Its one lesson is that countries, in the course of their his
