In 2021 SA, growth, digitisation, and cashflow sustainability will dominate
One of the many levers for growth as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic’s effect on the economy is through corporate activity
19 March 2021 - 13:50
It is a year since Covid-19 made its formal entrance into the global economy, and with second and third waves taking root across the world business owners are rightfully asking where growth will come from in 2021.
Coupled with fears over more gloomy news from Covid-19, a month after a budget in which universities had their allocations slashed for 2021 by R24.6bn, SA finds itself engulfed in student protests. Finance minister Tito Mboweni said in February that there was an incorrect notion that government is “swimming in cash”, when public finances are in fact dangerously overstretched...
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