HILARY JOFFE: How Ramaphosa's reforms ran into 2019's big fat reality check
15 December 2019 - 05:07
This was the year of the reality check. We began 2019 with forecasts that economic growth would lift to 1.7% and a state of the nation speech in which President Cyril Ramaphosa promised long-awaited reforms to boost the economy and fix ailing state-owned enterprises, especially Eskom. We have ended the year flirting with recession and stage 6 load-shedding - to the "surprise and shock" of Ramaphosa, whose economic reforms have been delivered excruciatingly slowly, if at all...
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