CEES Bruggemans is a consulting economist at Avior Research.BUSINESS DAY TV: The year 2016 may well be our year of living dangerously although it seems if you take today’s lead in the Business Day that some in government at least are furiously trying to retreat from the abyss. Cees Bruggemans calls it our year of struggle. He is consulting economist at Avior Research and he joins us now (on) ... News Leader.Cees ... thanks for coming up to Joburg. So you call it our 2016 struggle year for SA. In the main what do you think the key weaknesses are that we have to surmount?CEES BRUGGEMANS: External impoverishment, drought which we cannot control and then our self-made own goals which continue to grow. We tend to blame the outside world but I believe we ourselves make the bigger contribution to what is going wrong. And this is progressively over time, it’s an accumulation. So if last year was a struggle year, this is a super struggle year and who knows what awaits us next year.BDTV: You ...
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