Opinion

Looking at who is in charge, has the transformation experiment failed?

25 April 2021 - 00:00 By Sandile Zungu

On Tuesday, the country will be celebrating 27 years of freedom from apartheid colonialism - ironically, 27 years is the same period that Nelson Mandela spent behind bars in pursuit of our freedom. Yet the economic transformation project, which was initiated as a direct consequence of the negotiated political settlement, appears to have been set back a few years, especially in the financial services industry in the recent past...

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