South Africa’s public discourse has become trapped in a cycle of selective truth-telling — a trend and dishonesty that must now stop. It is a cycle that comforts, deflects and ultimately disables progress. At one end, there are persistent claims, sometimes overt and often implied, that incompetence, lack of skills, or institutional decline can be…
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