The Receipt: What 30 Years of ANC Rule Cost You by B.R. Vaal (.ePUB)
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The Receipt: What 30 Years of ANC Rule Cost You by B.R. Vaal
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Overview: In 1994, Baba Mkhize put on his best suit and stood in a queue from four in the morning. For the first time in his life, his country counted him. He was promised a better life for all.
Thirty years later, the white boy he taught isiZulu on an oil drum at a Hoedspruit fuel depot has added up what happened to that promise.
The Arms Deal. AIDS denial. Nkandla. The Guptas. The weekend that broke the rand. SAA. VBS. Fifteen years of load shedding. Marikana. Covid looting. July 2021. And dollars in a sofa at Phala Phala.
Every scandal. Every rand. Every life. Added up, item by item, with the sources at the end of every chapter.
But THE RECEIPT is not a dry list of numbers. It is told through the people who paid the bill: a petrol attendant who was told to eat garlic, a mother who carries water up a hill while she can see Nkandla’s swimming pool, a grandmother whose burial society money vanished, a teacher who had to leave the country to find a job, a mother crossing things off her budget at the kitchen table. Black and white. Young and old. All of them South African. All of them still paying.
In 1994 petrol cost R1.76. Today it costs over R30. In 1994, 2.5 million people were unemployed. Today it’s 8.5 million.
Somebody made a promise. Somebody broke it. This is THE RECEIPT.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational > Politics & Government > Elections & Political Process
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