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The devil in Patrick Bond’s policy time machine

The devil in Patrick Bond’s policy time machine

SHOULD South Africa “undo Mandela’s economic deals”? Is Mandela’s economic miracle a chimera? Political economist Patrick Bond certainly thinks so, unfortunately alongside other critics of the Mandela era, he also appears unable to explain exactly...

Fix the economy stupid and provide free education (part 3)

Fix the economy stupid and provide free education (part 3)

EXACTLY how is the country to going pay for free education? This is the question foremost on people's minds, as the country sobers up to the events of the past weeks, which saw the unprecedented storming of parliament and storming of the Union Buildings. Surprisingly, South Africa, ( as previousl...

Fix the economy stupid and provide free education (part 2)

Fix the economy stupid and provide free education (part 2)

SOUTH AFRICA'S YOUTH are experiencing an economic disconnect. A generation faced with a world without jobs,  a massive debt burden, and an economy that has failed miserably to gear itself up for the third wave technologies that Asia and the West have embraced decades previously. While you were ou...

Fix the economy stupid and provide free education (part 1)

Fix the economy stupid and provide free education (part 1)

IN 1994, the ruling party charted an economic course born out of the Interim Constitution and the Codesa negotiation process. Essentially, it involved embracing a 'mixed economy' approach, in which a market economy would exist side-by-side with a "dirigiste" economy, that had, as its antecedent,...

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