Allan Baxter
In the first of this three-part series, Thozamile Botha argued SA doesn't need a new economic plan – existing platforms, including Nedlac, can be used to help drive economic growth. In this second chapter, Botha discusses how.
Leading up to the State of the Nation Address (SONA) this year, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) outlined what it hoped President Cyril Ramaphosa would say.
Among other things, it stressed the importance of implementing the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP).
For its part, meanwhile, the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF) had in January released document of its own calling for the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) to reconvene to conclude a Strategic Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (SERRP).