Quite a few of your writers as well as a number of readers, for example Morgan Phaahla, continuously attack the high-growth, low-employment period during the Mbeki and Manuel era (Analyse options for Reserve Bank, June 10).
First, it is very easy to criticise when you were either not there or just idling on the sidelines. Further, with these gentlemen at the helm we had a relatively clean and efficient government, very low debt as a percentage of GDP, investment status and a surplus on the national budget, while most importantly we the citizens of this country were all (to some degree) pulling in the same direction to rebuild this country after the apartheid years...
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