Economists respond to Sona: just electioneering with no detail

Economists respond to Sona: just electioneering with no detail

If you expected to hear more from the president’s Sona about how government will tackle the country’s challenges, you were disappointed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo: GCIS As expected, this year’s Sona was just electioneering with no detail from president Cyril Ramaphosa about how government will tackle the many challenges that cause poor economic growth, economists say.

The president was always going to be speaking to the voters, especially given the poor ANC polling data released over the past week, the economists at the Bureau for Economic Research (BER), Lisette IJssel de Schepper, Romano Harold and Nicolaas van der Wath, say.“As […]

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