Forensic evidence points to light at the end of the political-economic tunnel
For starters, addressing issues around electricity, spectrum and public employment can, in the short-term, be achieved and make real change
Will politics allow us to grow the economy again? This is the question I believe is the main issue on the minds of business people and investors across SA, and one I attempted to answer in a webinar hosted by Nedbank Business Banking last week.
To unpack the current and future socio-political landscape I’d like to clarify that the country has been in a demographic recession for the past six years. This is not a technical recession, but a recession in that the population grew faster than the economy: quite simply, our population growth rate of 1.6% means we made babies faster than the rate at which we generated cash flow...
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