The Unfinished House
"South Africa's crisis of unemployment is not a macroeconomic malfunction but the spectral economy of a betrayed covenant. It is the material harvest of a metaphysical surrender: where the liberated state, in a profound inversion of its raison d'être, became the passive curator of apartheid’s ontological architecture. The political class, employing the psychological alchemy of fundamental attribution error, transmutes systemic economic exclusion into a pathology of the marginalized, thereby pathologizing the very consequences of the violence it refuses to dismantle. Thus, unemployment stands as the nation's most devastating metric of a negotiable dignity—a living monument not to a lack of jobs, but to a catastrophic absence of transformative will, revealing that the soul of the state was conquered not by its past, but by its own moral capitulation to that past's enduring design."
-Whalid Safodien
The Feather Pen
