Angelo Fick QnA Responses - "Political Debate In South Africa: What Is The Problem?"

"Why is it when we have social problems we don't think the people who experienced the problems and have thought about it, who may not necessarily have the degrees, could have something useful to contribute… you don't need to have been in university to think of a problem and come up with a solution. There is an assumption to formal education, that it leads to expertise." "...in the country that has seen the educational system that it has had for the past 20 years, why are we surprised that we have the kind of political non-debate that we have? If basic education is what it is, you don't have basic and critical literate citizens, those with power and control get away with the law… at some point, you have to admit that this is what society has designed ... people who contribute to the problem are supposedly going to solve it. Why would middle-class people be committed to changing inequality when the very basis of their lives depends on it”