HILARY JOFFE: Pretoria brings fruit salad of ideas to Nedlac search for real meat
16 August 2020 - 05:05
If the government's latest economic recovery plan is any guide, SA should not expect an economic recovery any time soon. And the damage done by the Covid crisis could well become permanent. The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan, which the government shared with its business, labour and community partners at Thursday's National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) forum, was disturbingly weak. Not only were the business and labour inputs significantly stronger and more coherent, they had a sense of urgency and crisis that was almost entirely lacking in the government input...
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