To consider social security in South Africa we have to consider a number of factors simultaneously, and this process may well challenge the aspirations that we might wish to have of where our country and our people should have been economically and socially seventeen years into our democracy. It is hoped, however, that we are able to adopt, in this consideration, the necessary boldness of thought and vision required to do justice to the vision and directives of the Constitution of South Africa as we continue to strive to heal the wounds of the past and build the future as required by the Founding Principles of the Constitution of South Africa.
Full document: Social Security Briefing Paper for the National Planning Commission, April 2011
