CLAIRE BISSEKER: Looks like a duck and quacks like a duck ... it is a (lame) duck
The average South African despairs of the sun ever rising on Ramaphosa’s ‘New Dawn’
18 April 2022 - 15:49
There are two competing narratives in SA today. The first is that the government has essentially made all the main reforms business has asked for, the economy is more resilient and recovering faster than initially thought, and it’s just a matter of time before confidence returns and growth really responds.
The second holds that reform has been slow and ineffectual, and progress too little too late. What’s more, it is being undone by regression in many other areas. Unless there is a sea change, SA will be neither fiscally nor socially sustainable over the longer term. ..
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