LETTER: Tito Mboweni’s bunny is dead on arrival
Tito Mboweni is offering nothing new and the economy can’t grow without hitting the load-shedding wall
29 August 2019 - 05:00
Finance minister Tito Mboweni’s announcement — “a surprise bunny” to most in government — that he has a plan to boost economic growth to 3% and create 1-million jobs with a raft of proposals and reforms, refers (“Mboweni springs surprise growth plan”, August 28).
The plan draws on some existing proposals and the “panacea” of the National Development Plan, which was introduced back in 2011 and has been collecting dust ever since. The ANC still talks about it occasionally, and now they are trying to resurrect it as a new dish with an implementation horizon to 2030...
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