There can be no arguing against the fact that SA is a broken society facing crises from different fronts and that the time has come to look beyond the governing African National Congress (ANC) for solutions to the crises.

For some people, the crisis has reached systemic levels marked by the dysfunctionality of the South African state. Wherever one looks, a sense of gloom and doom pervades the country with no hope for the future. A case in point for this state of gloom can be discerned from the latest crime statistics, which revealed that 6,083 people were killed in SA between January and March this year...