PETER BRUCE: If the opposition can get its act together, we’ll get our Big Bang
Someone asked me the other day where we stand in SA with the structural reforms that were promised, it seems, centuries ago by President Cyril Ramaphosa. I was expecting the question, but still fluffed my lines, giving the impression that while the reform process was painfully slow, it was still on. That it was sort of coming along.
What I had forgotten to do was remember the priceless speech Investec CEO Fani Titi made at the Gordon Institute of Business Science in Johannesburg last week. “If you are not a little scared about the country, there’s something wrong with you,” he told his audience. “You have to have a half-decent government and I don’t think at the moment we are anywhere close … We get the government we deserve because we either don’t vote or when we vote, we vote poorly.”..
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