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Seeking The Ethical Foundations of the South African Nation

Author :  Iraj Abdeian (Eds) , Itumeleng Mosala & Jeffrey Sehume Research Project

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Country
South Africa
Publisher
Real African Publishers, South Africa
ISBN 9781928341505
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2018
Bib. Info 286p. Includes Bibliography
Product Weight 460 gms.
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This book is the culmination of a project started by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) some five years ago. The initiative was aimed at reflecting on the past three decades of our young democracy with a view to understanding the ethical issues and challenges facing various sectors of our society today, and the extent to which ethics and values underpin the Constitution and National Development Plan (NDP) for the realisation of our freedoms. In pursuit of insight into those issues, MISTRA organised a workshop that included subject specialists in December 2015. The findings from that workshop were then presented at a conference held at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) in September 2016 with representatives of various stakeholders and sectors present. Inputs were given from scholars, activists and decision-makers, as well as up-and-coming researchers. The papers offered thought-provoking ideas about what might constitute shared values and ethics to take South Africa forward into a more equitable, ethical and just future. This book aims to put the presentations and discussions at those events further into the public domain and simply records the contributions of the main speakers and respondents. Since those papers were delivered, however, revelations about unethical conduct in various economic, social and political corners have surfaced, ranging from state enterprises and sectors to some of South Africa's most respected private corporations, and even some churches and sports groups. Across the spectrum, individuals and organisations have been involved in the squandering or theft of tens of billions of national revenue and savings. As this book goes to print, some five years after this project was begun, South Africans are seeking to deal with those revelations and formulate comprehensive responses to them. But whatever the outcomes of those attempts, we have witnessed - at great cost - that the nation cannot thrive unless ethics are cemented into the foundations of our democracy. That is not to hold our leaders to idealised and impossible-to-attain standards. Rather, it is to establish a state willing and capable of delivering the promises enshrined in our Constitution and cherished at the birth of our new dispensation. The discussions in this book can have no end or neat answers. It is MISTRA's hope that this publication will foster ongoing discussion and partnerships across society that will help us to deal with the challenges facing our nation. The Mapungubwe Institute is deeply grateful to the many people and organisations who have made this book possible, including those who gave of their time and expertise to take part in the workshop and conference and to review the papers that came out of those. Our gratitude is also extended to MISTRA's funders, in particular the Nedbank Foundation and AngloGold Ashanti, without whose generous donations this publication would not have been possible.

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