IT MAY be that, as we speak, a parliamentary but independent panel is gathering information about the efficacy of legislation passed since 1994; or not, since it is possible that the panel is looking in the wrong place. By a slightly wider interpretation, it is charged with no less than investigating whether the government since 1994 has succeeded or failed.The panel in question is led by former president Kgalema Motlanthe, who, at its establishment in January, said the panel would be hearing public submissions across the country, as Business Day reported at the time.This has now clearly happened, because Fanie Botha, an equally independent agricultural economist from Bothaville in the Free State’s maize girdle, has reminded us that hearings have begun in the Eastern Cape, moving him to loose a press release in which he declares that the ANC government "has just started writing the last chapter on SA as a developing country"."Whoa," I hear you say. "Last chapter?"Yes, let’s stay cal...
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