‘We will build a better South Africa through radical economic transformation’ (President Jacob Zuma on Heritage Day, 24 September, 2017) Introduction: Justice and Love The economy of forgiveness trades in the currency of mercy, not in justice. This in no way diminishes the importance of justice, but it locates the concerns of justice correctly. If we make justice the chief virtue, we withhold forgiveness until it is satisfied. Mercy does not wait at the fire while justice and injustice negotiate in the kraal. Justice, rather, awaits the response of injustice to mercy. Attaching the economy of forgiveness to restitution for wrong seems very sensible: it is, after all, just. Yet Jesus repeatedly overturned this logic in his Kingdom economy, which trades rather in the currency of mercy. To understand the difference, consider the four cardinal virtues of the Greeks and Romans: prudence, courage, temperance, and justice. Justice was the scales on which the virtues we