Income grant: Big bang for a few rand

Income grant: Big bang for a few rand

A woman applies for the special R350 Covid-19 grant. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) The corporate alpha males are once again in full flight claiming “only we alone” can save South Africa from its pandemic-ravaged economy, displaying the uneducated, arrogant plumage of privilege.

Mark Barnes, the failed Post Office corporate cadre deployment experiment, regaled radio listeners from his socially distanced Kommetjie beachfront spread with the notion that “it would take fewer than one hundred top business leaders less than three years to fix our economy — fund them, authorise them, get out of their way.”

It’s an old yarn from a grifter fraternity camouflaging […]

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