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Monday’s release of a presidential panel report on the deadly and costly July 2021 riots confirmed that the country’s bureaucratic security apparatus failed emphatically in the face of its biggest test in post-apartheid South Africa.
How do we expect to have a developmental state in practice, and not just as a cheap slogan, when we do not have a well-oiled, professional and competent civil service?