{"id":3603,"date":"2019-07-06T00:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T00:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room-the-crisis-of-sas-porous-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/06\/the-elephant-in-the-room-the-crisis-of-sas-porous-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elephant In The Room: The Crisis Of SA&#8217;s Porous Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Herman Mashaba.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South\nAfrica is a country of crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You name it\n\u2013 unemployment, poverty, inequality, the economy, corruption, racism and crime\n\u2013 there does not seem to be a crisis that is not engulfing our country\npresently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you were\nan international guest on an impromptu visit to South Africa and had never\nheard of our country before or its myriad problems, you would be surprised to\nfind out that we are in fact dealing with crisis upon crisis, and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is\nbecause there is nothing to suggest that there is anything untoward about the\nnumber of problems we are faced with daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No\nprogrammes of action; no significant outcry. Not even the slightest indication\nfrom our government that they know we have these crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems we\nare determined to carry on with life as usual.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently,\nwe received news that 237 000 jobs were lost in the first quarter of 2019.\nLater we received another set of devastating news \u2013 our GDP had contracted by\n3.2% in just one quarter\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/Columnists\/Herman_Mashaba\/herman-mashaba-illegal-immigration-city-of-johannesburg-20190704\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Herman Mashaba. South Africa is a country of crises. You name it \u2013 unemployment, poverty, inequality, the economy, corruption, racism and crime \u2013 there does not seem to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}