The country is on autopilot in the absence of real leadership. And it will get worse before it gets better, former president Kgalema Motlanthe tellsJeff Kelly Lowenstein

What have been the country’s greatest accomplishments in the past 22 years and what are the greatest challenges ahead? For starters, the system of apartheid was based on racial discrimination informed by skin colour. That’s the backdrop against which we then assess objectively changes that happened in 1994, which meant that for the first time all adults could vote, universal suffrage applied, and so on…..more