Experiments in governing: A challenge facing South Africa today and how science could be used to address it.

South Africa's challenges are much like a mixed chemical reaction; it appears as though the nation is at combat with it itself. Day-to-day reports mimic uncontrolled reagents being continually added into perspective. It is as if citizens are a laboratory experiment except the coordinators in charge are with little or no scientific knowledge enough to handle scientific analysis. We face what many would call economic inequality. Each day meets a new sector with a destructive unauthorized strike. Workers posing demands outside the wage scales associated with their service. Moreover, people tend to force having their way by being vicious toward infrastructures or even one another whenever they feel their pleas are not well communicated to authorities and employers. My advice in addition to the already existing systems would be to complement our communication channels by recruiting more science experts to form task-teams with members of parliament. We need not to politicize all issues through conducting political analysis even where scientific analysis may be a crucial necessity. With more scientists involved within discussions governing our nation, we would jointly work toward a reviewed form of balance.

Science 4 January 2013: vol. 339 no. 6115 pp. 30-32
DOI: 10.1126/science.339.6115.30