The country is yearning to put behind all these horrible things that have to do with corruption, state capture, behind us. The sooner these are all done, the better, because we want to move on; we want to move on to a better life.
We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
Marikana is a huge wake-up call.
We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.
Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture' are issues that are on our radar screen.