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SIPHO PITYANA: A base for a social compact?
Mboweni’s medium-term budget policy statement may offer a new rallying point for SA’s economy
30 October 2019 - 05:00
It feels like 1995 all over again, with SA scraping its way into the Rugby World Cup final. Now, as then, we have a chance of bringing the trophy home.
It was also in 1995 that we came to terms with our desperate economic situation and embarked on difficult reforms that were to drive us to 5.5% economic growth by 2007, trebling the size of the economy since 1994...
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