What Cyril Ramaphosa could do to break SA’s policy window
Political analyst Daniel Silk says policies must be implemented to modernise the country, ‘there are a number of projects that must be launched this year’
President Cyril Ramaphosa is in a race against time to implement policies meant to modernise the economy, says political analyst Daniel Silke.He was speaking at the South African Property Owners’ Association’s (Sapoa’s) national conference in Durban on Thursday."We have lost 10 years as a country. We have to implement policies so we can modernise this country. Ramaphosa has a window now to break this policy limbo. There are a number of projects that must be launched this year," said Silke, who was taking part in a roundtable discussion.Silke said the presidential economic advisory council that Ramaphosa announced during his state of the nation address in February needed to be launched. A jobs fund had to be created and a discussion on digitalisation had to happen so that the country could train people in appropriate jobs for the future.Journalist Ranjeni Munusamy said South Africans needed to stop thinking that only politicians could direct the country’s strategies. However, opposit...
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