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By Moumita Barman and Chhaya Jindal The Centre for Development Policy and Practice organised a session with Samar Halarnkar, the co-founder of Article 14

Government policy and enablement have to align with what business needs to grow and investors need to know, only then will we be able to ‘assist’ each other.

The SUNDAY TIMES of 11 June the front page reads “Business and government smoke peace pipe” It reports “Ramaphosa stressed the business and government were ‘working together’ and that the needed to counter the assumption that business was ‘assisting government’ which implied the administration was incompetent.”Agreement was reached on the formation of a National Logistics Crisis committee and a Joint Initiative to fight Crime and Corruption built on the success of the National Energy Crisis Committee. Ramaphosa especially asked that “while we are expecting you not to be prais...

If we want our economy to grow, we should stop repeating the policy errors of the recent past and we should demand better governance, argues Ann Bernstein. President Cyril Ramaphosa proclaimed in Parliament last week:

South Africa faces a myriad of challenges, and it is hard not to feel despondent. But does this mean the country has reached the point of becoming a failed state? Experts tackle the issue in this week's edition of Friday Briefing.