South Africa is misdiagnosing its crisis. We speak constantly about unemployment, inequality, economic stagnation, broken schools and violent communities. We should. These are real emergencies. But beneath them lies a deeper wound, one that helps reproduce all the others. It is humiliation. Not embarrassment. Not wounded pride.
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