An ANC volunteer gets ready to erect posters of party president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in Johannesburg, prior to South Africa’s May 29 elections.
(Delwyn Verasamy, Mail & Guardian)
When the British statistician George Box famously exclaimed that “all models are wrong, but some are useful” he meant to emphasise the importance of a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems. In other words, rather than attempting to find perfect answers that address every possible objection, we should instead attempt to generate practical solutions that can be…