Besides the government’s determination to proceed with nuking the health sector, the most devastating news this week was the huge state-owned enterprise (SOE) bailouts and the fact that taxpayers will have to fund this.
We are all painfully aware that Eskom and other SOEs are in a state of catastrophe and need urgent restructuring, but the government’s solutions are like prescribing aspirin for intensive-care patients who are about to pass on. ..
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