Picture: Esa Alexander Protestors at a #JobsSaveLives demonstration in Cape Town this month drew attention to the loss of work opportunities due to the Covid lockdown. ● SA faces three major problems: a crippling economic crisis, a complete breakdown of public trust, and looming instability as Covid worsens starvation, poverty and joblessness.
In short, our country is in very deep trouble and our government has no plan.
Large numbers of conventional economists have roundly condemned finance minister Tito Mboweni’s amended budget as wholly inadequate. And the ANC’s latest “economic plan” founders on three false premises: that the co-ordination and “social compacting” […]
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