SA markets are trying, unsuccessfully, to digest two big shocks. Locally we have the threatened collapse of the government of national unity (GNU), which is threatening to fracture.

This is nominally because the ANC and the DA failed to agree and pass a budget, but I theorise that it is because the GNU is struggling to function under the weight of its inconsistencies. ..

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