FMF FEATURE ARTICLE
Radical change needed to improve SA economy's growth prospects - Chris Hattingh
No matter the successes of other countries, it appears that the South African government remains determined to ignore the ingredients necessary for prosperity and increased living standards: the rule of law, recognition and protection of property rights, freedom of expression and a free press, and limited-to-no government interference in people's lives and business activity. Given the devastation wrought through the government's Covid-19 lockdown (and the ever-downward slide of South Africa across all ease-of-doing-business and economic freedom indices before the pandemic), there is no better time than now to try policies underpinned by individual agency.