South Africans need to hold onto their seats. It’s going to be a rocky five years.
- Dean: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, and Professor of Economics, University of the Free State
Debt forgiveness isn’t the answer. History is replete with examples of countries that are serial defaulters.
In being grey listed South Africa joins a list of countries with poor governance. Others are war zones or countries with jihadist terror groupings operating on their land.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that government expenditure on higher education and specifically universities will be the fastest growing expenditure items on the budget.
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