Donald Liphoko

The article by Sandile Ngidi on titled “SA’s failure to communicate” (Sunday Independent, July 3) is disconcerting and seeks to disempower South Africans as architects of our shared vision of a prosperous, democratically rooted nation.

It is a thinly veiled attempt to drag South Africans back to the hollow “big man-failed African state’’  construct where our collective woes, real or imagined, are conveniently transferred to the feet of a single individual or distant elite instead of reflecting on our own agency in the unfolding narrative.

Every new factory that opens its doors in the country is a reason for celebration. It means more jobs and a greater demand for support services such as transport, maintenance and security.

A product manufactured in South Africa advances our industrialisation. Through the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP), the government has promoted long-term industrialisation and industrial diversification.