Cover title and statement of responsibility. Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-212).
Contents:
Introduction -- Foreword -- Preface -- Global competiveness -- Gini co-efficient -- Poverty -- Unemployment -- Corruption -- Productivity -- Ownership of JSE listed shares -- Credit ratings -- Debt and deficit -- Expatriates -- Land reform -- Roads deaths -- Crime -- Education -- Tourism -- Water quality -- Child grants and teenage pregnancy -- South Africa's middle class -- Trade unions -- South Africa vs Zimbabwe -- The creative industry -- Urban regeneration -- Foreign direct investment -- The national development plan -- Broad-based Black eonomic empowerment (BBBEE) -- Epilogue -- A final word.
Summary:
Forty-two South Africans, experts in their various fields, elaborate on twenty-five "true or false" questions about the state of South Africa today. Their opinions are presented along with supporting facts, graphs, tables, and diagrams that illuminate the condition of South Africa after 20 years of democrary.
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