EDITORIAL: What is needed to fix economy
Presidential candidates Dlamini-Zuma and Ramaphosa both recognise they will need the business community in a post-Zuma phase that includes an economic Codesa
The two top contenders for the ANC presidency recently outlined their priorities for the economy and how they would go about fixing it should they come to power. As the ANC succession race is not much about policy, the messages were really aimed at the wider public and in particular the business community, which both candidates recognise they will need in a post-Zuma phase. Both call for some kind of economic Codesa. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma compares this directly to the constitutional negotiations and says that similar negotiation on the economy and land ownership is necessary and easily possible. Cyril Ramaphosa talks of a "new deal" for jobs and growth to be negotiated by all stakeholders in the economy. Ramaphosa’s exposition, which he delivered at a public meeting in Soweto last week, drew mostly from the National Development Plan. He spelled out 10 priorities in a sort of apex of importance with job creation and investment at the top. Along with these goes the need for confidenc...
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