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Fostering a competent, professional public service is foundational to South Africa’s prospects for economic growth and future resilience as a constitutional democracy. The failure to create such institutions in the three decades since the transition, and the consequent administrative dysfunction, poses a grave danger to South Africa’s economic growth prospects, and to its endurance as a democracy.
This is the thrust of the latest report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), In Service of the Public: Reforming South Africa’s Public Administration, which analyses the origins of the country’s public service, the considerable problems afflicting it, as well as recent developments,…
Proteas: The national flower of South Africa, the protea, symbolizes the beauty
and diversity of the country’s flora.
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Jislaaik – an expression of surprise [yis-liike] This is usually said when trying to express surprise or wonder.Example: “Jislaaik, you gave me a fright!”
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China: You have two cows. You post their pics all over social media, then sell people fake milk.