EDITORIAL: IRR’s spat with Sygnia’s Magda Wierzycka just isn’t liberalism
Prescribed assets have been tried — during apartheid — and found wanting
15 September 2020 - 19:24
Perhaps the most astonishing part about the row between Sygnia CEO Magda Wierzycka and the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), other than the latter’s illiberal attitude, is that it comes at a time when there is growing consensus about the subject at hand. And that is the possible imposition of prescribed assets as tried during the apartheid era by the National Party government.
Some think this could solve the country’s problems of unsustainable government debt, creaking infrastructure and bankrupt state-owned enterprises...
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