Even the president would admit that on the big economic steps, hardly anything has been delivered
In fairness to President Cyril Ramaphosa, any assessment of progress made, or not, since the last time he delivered a state of the nation address has to acknowledge that there will not have been much time between the 25th and the 26th addresses.
What is required is policy interventions that convince business that SA is a good place to invest money and generate returns. As happy as people are to see some of Jacob Zuma’s most notorious loyalists gone, there is still a suspicion cabinet posts were handed over on the basis of internal ANC power dynamics rather than the urgency to deliver services and growth-enhancing reforms.
On this note, we hope Ramaphosa will tackle the tendency for ministers to embark on fanciful but harmful legislative crusades. The so-called Airbnb bill in discussion is one case in point and threatens to be as damaging as the visa regulations on travelling with young people, which were implemented haphazardly because the enforcers at the border do not understand them.
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