SA’s four possible economic futures
The status quo cannot last; SA is approaching a tipping point that may involve radical discontinuity — for good or ill. A new scenario planning exercise shows four potential trajectories
24 March 2022 - 05:00
If there’s one subject guaranteed to rile South Africans, it’s a prediction that the country is becoming a failed state. Future scenarios developed by an independent think-tank put the odds of this happening — either rapidly or through a slow-burning descent — at better than even.
Of the four scenarios developed by the Centre for Risk Analysis (CRA), the risk advisory arm of the SA Institute of Race Relations, two result in SA’s decline and two show positive change...
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