Fix the public service to get SA into the top league

South Africa's dismal showing in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index - our ranking slipped three places to 56th out of 144 countries last year - was largely a product of slow economic growth, appalling labour relations, and poor education and training. Problems such as these are systemic and will require government policies that are far more business-friendly, a Herculean national effort, visionary leadership, and many years of hard work to fix.