JONNY STEINBERG: How will Cyril Ramaphosa get consensus on an intolerable solution?
Debt crisis is an existential threat to the economy, but IMF austerity measures are an existential threat to ANC base
09 July 2020 - 14:35
How will SA’s encroaching sovereign debt crisis play out in the ANC? One way to answer this question is to look at previous crises in other countries.
In November 1976, when debt default loomed for Britain, and a group of grey IMF men arrived in London, then prime minister Jim Callaghan secretly negotiated terms with them, including a whopping £2.5bn cut in state spending. Then he took the matter to his cabinet, most of whom were oblivious to the agreement he had made...
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