South Africa’s economic progress can be divided into two halves before and after the global financial crisis. The rapid progress in the first half was wiped out in the second as the country failed to get on top of its many structural constraints
The most unusual element of this year’s National budget also illustrates the National Treasury’s failed approach to budget policy and its unwillingness to leverage the budget as a vehicle for growth, employment and development, writes Gilad Isaacs.
By a confluence of things that could not have been designed for better effect, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula succeeded spectacularly last week in advertising the governing party’s increasingly baffling search for meaning.
There's an argument for using SA's contingency reserves as the cost of borrowing soars - ETM Analytics' George Glynos explains why this could in fact harm the country.
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