WHAT DIAGNOSIS? WHICH REMEDY? CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE DIAGNOSTIC OVERVIEW OF SOUTH AFRICA’S NATIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION

  • Ernst M Conradie University of the Western Cape
Keywords: Diagnostic Report, Inequality, National Development Plan, National Planning Commission, Sin, Social Diagnostics, Unemployability

Abstract

This contribution offers some critical reflections on the Diagnostic Overview produced by the South African National Planning Commission. The argument is structured in the form of catena and commentary with main sections devoted to the assumption of the need for economic growth, factors inhibiting economic growth, the category of unemployability, and the impact of inequalities. It is suggested that Christian discourse on sin, understood as a form of social diagnostics, can contri-bute to an in-depth diagnosis by uncovering the root causes of the problem from an ultimate perspective.

Author Biography

Ernst M Conradie, University of the Western Cape
 University of the Western Cape
Published
2018-11-20
Section
Articles