Chess with 16.9 million Pawns
Fight or flight. These two behaviors represent the options humans have to choose from when facing a crisis. The luxury of settling on flight is wholly removed when the crisis involves the protection or interests of others who cannot defend or represent themselves. Human nature is then to stand toe to toe with whatever adversity bears down on us and fight to our very last breath. A lioness never leaves her cubs to the mercy of the hyenas. SASSA and the South African minister of social development seem to disagree. South Africa is for all intents and purposes a welfare state. There are approximately 5 million taxpayers supporting 16.9 million grant recipients. And many more people who are not grant recipients rely on someone who does qualify for one to survive. Now let me add that without the grant recipient, many people in South Africa would simply not be able to live. They would very literally die. The old, the indigent, the sick and the defenseless would suffer unt