Abstract
Taking his cue from a recent report by the US National Council on Civil Society, the author discusses a number of “seedbeds of civic virtue” that may play a role in the much needed moral regeneration of South African society. The “seedbeds” are (1) family, (2) the local community, (3) faith communities, (4) voluntary civil organizations, (5) arts and art institutions, (6) education, (7) business, labour and economic institu-tions, (8) the media, (9) government, (10) the nation. The “rainbow nation”, the author contends, has in recent times lost some of its colour, but if the different partners in the quest for moral regeneration take hands, the colours of the rainbow may return.
Highlights
THE RAINBOW HAS FADEDI bought three newspapers yesterday (5 March 2003): The Sowetan, Beeld and The Pretoria News
A catalogue of woe awaits one, page after page. This surely, is not the South Africa we all envisaged when Madiba embraced the world and smiled his famous smile on that glorious day in Pretoria, in May 1994, when the Rainbow People danced in the streets, the day the dream of a truly new South Africa seemed to have been realized
Farmer (79) attacked on his farm at Skeerpoort
Summary
I bought three newspapers yesterday (5 March 2003): The Sowetan, Beeld and The Pretoria News.
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