Let’s hope the realists on the president’s new economic advisory council are able to persuade him that necessary preconditions for new investment include business confidence and trust, and that investors possibly interested in SA want to know fealty to the rule of law is intact in the country.

The impunity those responsible for state capture, the looting of the state-owned enterprises and grand corruption still enjoy in SA is surely giving would-be investors cause for pause...

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