LETTER: ANC must stop with the crazy policies
Policymaking in governing party looks designed to cause most harm possible to country’s interests
President Barack Obama once summed up his foreign policy as “Don’t do stupid sh*t!”. As presidential doctrines go, it isn’t particularly incisive, or presidential. But it could be quite a handy guide to policymaking in government, where every decision has profound implications.
At the moment, ANC policymaking seems designed to do the most harm possible to the country’s interests and plumb new depths of bad sentiment. Each policy announcement is crazier and more destructive than the last. Prescribed assets, national health insurance, nationalising the SA Reserve Bank, expropriating property, and on it goes. ..
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