What a country! One minute we hold a free, fair and fabulous election and you start thinking that maybe, just maybe, we are about to become a world-class destination. The next minute you are tightening the seatbelt and considering your options.All because Uncle Jacob has been handed the cockpit key and you don’t know what in the world he will do next.I know many Financial Mail readers who, just last week, were hailing the strengthening of the rand and planning their holidays in some far-flung destination. It was all looking good.Then along came Brother Jacob, nose bloody from the DA and EFF taking away the crown jewels of Jo’burg, Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay municipalities in the local elections. We should all have seen the flashing lights when the ANC national executive sat for four days and came out of its meeting saying no-one was to blame for its electoral decline.Then, as if that act of blindness was not enough, the party told us it would tell government not to increase univ...
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