GARTH STRACHAN: Critical that SA creates framework to support ‘sunrise’ sectors
SA’s rapid response to Covid-19 has shown our capacity to sidestep bureaucratic paralysis and our ability to rapidly set up and operate systems
23 April 2020 - 17:49
SA has moved fast and, so far, successfully to contain the spread of Covid-19. For the foreseeable future, the national focus will be on the pandemic’s consequences.
In the months ahead, this national public health and economic effort to undo the damage Covid-19 wreaks on our people and the economy that sustains them, will be undertaken in conditions of a deeply constrained fiscus and in the wake of a deep-seated domestic economic downturn...
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