We’re in the final act of a tragedy

Quite how the ANC dies as a government is impossible to predict, writes Peter Bruce

05 November 2023 - 00:02

Clearing my desk the other day I came upon a story I had printed out with an alarming headline: “SA on one-way ride to a debt crisis, warns Michael Sachs”.  Sachs is a seriously wise economist and former head of the National Treasury’s budget office. He quit rather than bend the knee to Jacob Zuma and the Gupta brothers...

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