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Podcast: The Daily Discourse
Episode: The 2025 IJR Reconciliation
Description: South Africa’s democracy may be holding, but public confidence remains fragile. The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation has released its 2025 South African Reconciliation Barometer, revealing that one year into the country’s Government of National Unity, trust in political leadership is still critically low — even as many South Africans express cautious support for government policies. Based on more than two thousand nationally representative interviews, the survey paints a picture of a nation grappling with deep economic hardship, low interpersonal trust, and persistent inequality — with poverty and unemployment still seen as the biggest obstacles to reconciliation since 1994. While su...