The Left, the Right and the politics South Africa still lacks

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SACP General-Secretary Solly Mapaila and EFF leader Julius Malema, with uMkhonto weSizwe Party's Second Deputy President Tony Yengeni, in the background at the at the opening of the Conference of the Left held in Boksburg last month.

As unemployment, state failure and inequality deepen, South Africa remains trapped between competing ideologies that offer incomplete answers.

The real challenge is not choosing between the state and the market, but building a workable balance between the two before another decade of drift takes hold, posits the writer.

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