As far as the economy goes, last week’s State of the Nation address (SONA) dealt primarily with structural reform in sectors like electricity, spectrum, transport and infrastructure.

Recent cabinet decision to look at land tax again In 2019 the Presidential Advisory Panel recommended that the Minister appoints a land tax inquiry to consider a national policy or regulations to the Municipal Property Rates Act of 2004.

The Zondo commission’s recent reports have provided chapter-and-verse on the fraud and inflated pricing that bedevilled so many of the Gupta-linked procurement contracts entered into by Transnet and other state-owned enterprises during Jacob Zuma’s presidency. 

Leave it to the current generation of central bankers with their abundance of God complexes to believe that they can shape anything but the very shortest end of the yield curve.

Must honest South Africans pay for Eskom’s sins and follies? I’m afraid we must. If we don’t, the economic consequences for the country are calamitous.

When President Cyril Ramaphosa visited Soweto last year to campaign in the local government elections, there were serious protests.