Cape Town, 27 January, 2022 / 9:35 pm (ACI Africa).
The issues that South Africa is facing, including violence and looting, can be addressed by establishing an economy that will be friendly to the people, the Catholic Archbishop of South Africa’s Cape Town Archdiocese has said.
Archbishop Stephen Brislin said that unemployment among the youth is pushing them to express their frustration through violence, which he says is as a result of the poor economy in the Southern African nation.
“I think there is a great danger of violence, protest and war because people express their frustration; it is directly linked to the economy. The economy is at the bottom of this situation,” Archbishop Brislin said in a Wednesday, January 26 interview with the ACI Africa Correspondent in South Africa.
The South African Archbishop added, “If we don’t get the economy right, we are not going to give people employment, and we are not going to address the inequality issue.”
He further said that there is a need to rethink the country’s economy in a general sense adding that the economy is supposed to serve people and not the people serving the economy “as it is in the country”.