The National Planning Commission’s 10-year review this week was a real blast from the past. Many may not have realised that the commission, set up in the early days of Jacob Zuma’s presidency, still existed.

Those were days of some optimism, when it was possible to imagine that SA could lift its growth rate to 5% and halve its unemployment rate, in line with targets set by the commission...

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