Complex choice: A Black Sash member outside the constitutional court during the social grants hearing. Even though the tender for the payment of social grants was awarded irregularly, annulling it would be the greater social ill for poor people. Photo: Alon Skuy/Sunday Times/Getty Images
Mere forgiving and forgetting based on a lack of political will, incompetence, laziness, corrupt motives or even universal love, is not on
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