'Dialogue another public relations exercise'

Ntshalintshali said it would also be an opportunity to engage on the challenges and opportunities that exist, priorities on the competing needs, and suggestions on what South Africans can do together in building the rainbow nation that they are envisaging, but more importantly, what strategies are needed to realise such a dream.

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"So, challenges are known, but commitment by all is missing, so this is an opportunity for a social compact that has to be balanced. For workers, without being their spokesperson, this idea of a social impact is not new.

"There have been many social compacts agreed upon, others successful and others not, so they would share their experience and proposals and what needs to be done in an equitable and fair contribution," he explained.

Academic head of the University of the Free State’s Department of Sociology, Professor Sethulego Matebesi, said the National Dialogue will be another public relations exercise that will not lead to tangible outcomes.