While issues burn, we fiddle with numbers
17 October 2021 - 00:00
Jacob Zuma isn't the only one who has difficulty with numbers. A lot of people just make stuff up. I see that to bolster support for its policies of “localisation”, the department of trade, industry & competition has begun to publish, under successes, the actual “numbers of jobs saved or retained”. How does it know?..
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