We all know that reviews are just an excuse to rewrite history and pat ourselves on the back whilst (for politicians at least) we get to slurp at the trough of largess provided by the taxpayer.
In his foreword of the 165 page Twenty Year Review, our President says; “South Africa is a much better place to live in now than it was in 1994. Indeed, we have a good story to tell. As a country, we have made remarkable progress in dismantling the oppressive apartheid system and we have created a thriving constitutional democracy with well-functioning arms of state – a representative legislature, the executive and an independent judiciary.”
Reading the above, you just know that it is going to be a long sycophantic read so we have broken it down for you as a Search Engine would by counting all the words and giving you the top 40 words appearing in the document as an indicator of intent from the desk of the President.
First a summary of the document:
- Total word count: 83927 words
- Primary Keywords count: 51097 words (60.88%)
- Common Words Count: 32830 words (39.12%) – common words are excluded for the purposes of the exercise below.
The number of times primary words appeared in the Twenty Year Review:
- south – 697
- percent – 477
- africa – 477
- government – 340
- 1994 – 330
- development – 309
- national – 276
- public – 275
- infrastructure – 270
- 2013 – 265
- african – 264
- 2012 – 223
- people – 218
- services – 201
- economic – 200
- health – 195
- year – 189
- water – 186
- more – 183
- apartheid – 183
- social – 180
- access – 176
- new – 174
- state – 170
- through – 169
- system – 165
- between – 165
- education – 160
- areas – 158
- service – 155
- review – 154
- increased – 148
- department – 146
- over – 141
- sector – 141
- years – 138
- growth – 134
- such – 133
- policy – 132
- democratic – 125
Looking at the above one assumes that the reader will be able to discern the pressing needs or celebratory concepts contained in the Twenty Year Review document.
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Alan Straton
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