In his state of the nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa touched on our needs: private-sector growth and investment, power, skills — local and foreign. But he failed to follow through.

Investors need confidence. The president should have assuaged fears of expropriation by stating that productive farms will not be taken, nor private homes and assets. He did not...

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