In addition to the financial and social strains of the pandemic, SA still needs to overcome historic hurdles that put the country on the back foot during the lockdown.

These include the slow pace of government reforms; the skills-readiness of our workforce to gain employment in a fourth industrial revolution (4IR) workplace; the devastating impact of rapid climate change in a country already gripped by drought; and an energy crisis that is straining our economy...

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