LETTER: Driven to the alms of the IMF
The pandemic period has confirmed the inevitability of a recourse to the IMF. And if that can be used to prompt overdue reform, it may ultimately prove beneficial
Rob Rose is correct that SA is on the way to an IMF bailout (Opinion, August 24) (https://www.businesslive.co.za/fm/opinion/2020-08-24-rob-rose-like-it-or-not-sa-lurches-towards-imf/). This has been years in the making.
While Rose may be correct that the Left of the ANC and its alliance are aggrieved at the prospect of losing economic sovereignty — and, with it, the latitude to meddle with the Reserve Bank and undermine property rights — it is as well to recall that these are positions that have been advocated by the supposedly reformist president. And the economic trauma stemming from the health crisis seems to have given the government no pause to reconsider this perilous course...
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