The crack in the SA economy has, after some gallant efforts by the more sober elements of our body politic, proven impossible to seal after all. The decision by Moody’s Investors Service to cut our credit rating to speculative grade or “junk” finally brought down the guillotine to cut SA’s tenuous hold on its last investment-grade rating.

We have hit the economic iceberg...

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