PETER BRUCE: Four brilliant points in a paper bristling with good ideas
Tito Mboweni’s surprise document proposes relaxing immigration rules, more support for tourism, dumping beneficiation and tightening industrial policy
29 August 2019 - 05:09
I am easily amused, but I have not had as much fun reading a serious document in years as I have had poring over the Treasury economic discussion document that was dropped into the public space, quite without warning, on Tuesday by finance minister Tito Mboweni.
As the document hit the streets, Mboweni’s boss, President Cyril Ramaphosa, was in Tokyo, extolling the virtues of Africa’s future at an investment conference...
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