ENOCH GODONGWANA: Setting the record straight on ANC economic policy document
Business Day columnist Claire Bisseker normally provides useful insights and analysis about the economy, but in her recent column (“ANC’s new growth plan a confusing clean sweep (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2020-07-13-claire-bisseker-ancs-new-growth-plan-a-confusing-clean-sweep/)”, July 13), she made some fundamental factual errors, which raises the question whether she took time to read the ANC’s document.
A linchpin of Bisseker’s polemic is that the ANC’s document does not mention the paper on economic reform that finance minister Tito Mboweni released in August 2019. In this assertion Bisseker is plainly wrong; the ANC document explicitly references Mboweni’s paper on page 3, where it reads: “In crafting this plan, the ANC proceeds from the premise that there are many policy documents that capture the approach of [the] government on the issue of economic growth and social inclusion. These include the Reconstruction & Development Programme (RDP...
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