RON DERBY: Austerity messaging needs to change

15 September 2019 - 00:05 By Ron Derby

Before that December evening some four years ago, we knew as a country that economic conditions weren't well on the ground and that, globally, conditions were set to become more difficult. Sure, we had at the helm an increasingly unpopular president who had just built himself a mansion at his rural homestead with taxpayers' funds, but we were kind of used to the idea that, in a couple of years, he'd surely be out of power...

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