LETTER: Grass is greener elsewhere
Peter Bruce is naive, SA won't bounce back from anything
There is a touch of naive optimism in Peter Bruce’s column when he urges South Africans not to emigrate (Cyril Ramaphosa still standing as Msholozi stumbles (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/columnists/2019-08-22-peter-bruce-cyril-ramaphosa-still-standing-as-msholozi-stumbles/), August 22). He says our currency is more than R18 to the pound and asks: “And if you’re taking money out, what are you buying?”
You’re buying a new future, even if you leave the country with very little, that’s what. Even if “there are recessions coming to the UK, the US and possibly even Australia”, that doesn’t matter. They will bounce back. Under the ANC with its banal factionalism and archaic economic policies, there is no way we will bounce back from anything...
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