The spat between Colin Coleman, the former Goldman Sachs CEO for Sub-Saharan Africa, and a clutch of local economists has been entertaining. After all, it’s not every day that young, black economists call a scion of white monopoly capital “populist”.

However, the issues being ventilated are deeply serious and critical to whether SA embarks on a sustainable growth path or spirals ever downwards...

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