JUSTICE MALALA: What bad news will come next?
Supra Mahumapelo should pack his bags and go. He has run the North West into the ground
The problem with this country is not that we have loads of bad news; it’s that it’s so hard to get to the good news. Too many distractions. I was sitting there last week, grinning away, looking at a newspaper headline that said our economic prospects were great. "IMF predicts higher growth for SA," it said. I was well pleased. As I was about to delve into the story my radio informed me that the former president of the republic had just had a baby with a 24-year-old. I mean, really? The man is 76. My interest is not salacious. I am amazed that as the economy plunged to new lows last year former president Jacob Zuma was playing the field. No-one was concentrating on what really matters — jobs and more jobs. But I soldiered on with the good news despite this rude interference. I learnt that the IMF says the SA economy will strengthen to 1.5% in 2018 and 1.7% in 2019. That’s a terrible figure, but it’s an improvement on where we would have been with Zuma in charge. I predict we will go ...
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