‘This is the worst ANC economic policy discussion document I have read’
Economic analyst Duma Gqubule despairs of the ANC's fumbling attempts to deal with unemployment, inequality and low growth
15 May 2022 - 00:02
Over the past 25 years — since the ANC'S national conference in 1997 in Mangaung — it has always been easy to read the party's economic policy documents. I go straight to the section on macroeconomic policy. It is always the shortest, less than a page, and pretends to say something substantial...
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