We’re just shy of halfway through 2018, and South Africans — having put the trauma of 2017 behind us — have settled back into our naturally agitated state. We’re fighting each other over land, racism and wages; unions are marching and politicians are positioning in anticipation of the 2019 elections. I have written about how close we came to the edge of the abyss, to heading down a potentially irreversible road of economic and financial decline that would have ended tragically in bailouts and junk. Instead, we have a new president who only four months into the job has surprised even the most optimistic of analysts with his progress as he almost surgically removes the organs of state capture from our system. All of this has not gone unnoticed by the rating agencies, foreign investors and international press. Equally, it has not gone unnoticed by South Africans, with both business and consumer confidence for the first quarter showing the highest quarterly rise in years. SA is back. We...
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