TONY LEON | As we teeter on the brink of the abyss, the silence of big business is deafening

Despite our collapsed infrastructure and failed economic policy business leaders have remained sullenly silent

24 January 2023 - 20:34

The cavalcade of chaos and crises confronting South Africa right now, with electricity outages a daily grim reminder of our failing state, is probably an excellent moment to roll out the tattered red carpet in Pretoria for the visiting representative of an even more failed enterprise than our own: Russia...

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