It has become increasingly apparent that economists and business people are at a loss to identify any vestiges of a coherent strategy or economic policy on the part of the government. In addition, the government's reaction to catastrophic failures in the provision of essential services such as electricity, water and sanitation is always completely off-key and inappropriate.Is it possible that Jacob Zuma and his governing elite do not want the economy to do well because they prefer to have extremely low levels of employment and widespread poverty - come election time, this makes the electorate more pliable in terms of desperate souls giving away their vote for an election-time "Christmas box"?Conversely, it is certainly true to say that a more economically uplifted electorate is far more likely to question the ongoing abject failures of the governmentOver the past 20 years the government has spent hundreds of billions of rands on primary and secondary education that has produced an uneducated and uneducable generation. In terms of tertiary education, which receives minuscule funding compared to schools, how ironic that our seat of government was barricaded by police to repel hordes of angry university students, protesting unaffordable and escalating fees.In terms of a total absence of any form of coherent response, one cannot but question the government's motives. ..