We were politically free, but we had still to deal with the demand for an entire legislative and institutional transformation. In the first six years of democratic rule, we met this demand with tremendous success. Yet, when we look around there are still people who have no jobs. In fact, there are more of them than ever before. There are still people with no homes, no education, no training, and no hope.
Many women still suffer abuse and discrimination.
Thousands of people still have no access to basic health-care, and their nutritional needs go unmet. In an age when we should all be computer literate, many don t even have electricity. There is an army of human resources, but they have no skills. Criminality and substance abuse are becoming more and more attractive to our youth as an alternative to the void which sits where their future should be. For genuine liberation to reach ordinary people, change must be able to be effected from the bottom.