Maintaining austerity is reckless and risks plunging the country into a worse social and economic crisis than the unrest of July 2021
Perhaps the government does want us to know how bad things really are
We must address the legacy of apartheid and abolish the slave wage economy we have inherited.
It is about time that the government looked at its core functions and built strong
internal capacity to fulfil those functions.
Pravin Gordhan has tried to please everyone, but SA needs an overhaul of macroeconomic policy and state restructuring, writes Gumani Tshimomola.
The problem facing government departments is not simply an issue of poor leadership or unskilled officials; it is structural.