People walks past the Nelson Mandela graffiti in Cape Town. SA’s social contract is under threat, says the writer. PICTURE: ESA ALEXANDER/SUNDAYTIMES The social contract that holds the SA democratic nation state as we know it together is under threat.
This social contract is premised, in its most simple terms, on a trade: citizens pay protection money, in the form of taxation, and submit to the rule of the democratically elected state, which provides physical and fiscal protection in the form of maintaining and enforcing law and order and, increasingly, providing welfare entitlements and social safety nets.
Citizens thus give up […]
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