THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Economic policy ideas mired in the past
So, Robert Mugabe finally resigned. Good. He was a tyrant who harmed the citizens of his own country. Leaders who prey on their nations after rendering them defenceless are the reason the International Criminal Court was established. Let us hope Mugabe is stripped of all his assets and forced to live the rest of his days in penury. And in his wake, can Zimbabwe be fixed? Not really, and certainly not any time soon. Farms may eventually become more productive, and unemployment may fall to a mere 50%. But while Mugabe has been busy destroying his country, the world has changed. It no longer needs the old Zimbabwe. Once the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe will wake from its nightmare to find a new Africa is doing much better at feeding itself. So what do you do?The same question is in vogue in SA: how does one rescue the economy? Who has the answers? I am sometimes impatient with DA leader Mmusi Maimane for taking his time to table proposals to stimulate growth. But perhaps it’s harder...
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