South Africans are not lazy, they face a broken economic system

Claims that South Africans are too lazy to work ignore the enduring effects of apartheid spatial planning, unemployment, transport costs and labour exploitation. Princess Phumzile Buthelezi’s remarks risk reviving a damaging colonial stereotype that historically portrayed black South Africans as unwilling to work.

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