The narrative is “everything is fine in South Africa.” This understanding is stuck in 1991. To admit that the South African project hasn’t worked would be an immense political and ideological failure for the West.
‘Wokeism,’ the current battering ram at the door of conservative values, might have arisen from elite schools and universities in prosperous countries, but this does not explain why it spread with the ferocity that it clearly did.
As we look upon our own societies with an ever-decreasing patience at the loss of religious values, we must collectively re-assess our city walls. Are the cracks merely contained to the surface, or does our city lie in ruins?
