Few things undermine economic growth as profoundly as excessive taxation and ineffective government spending. This is a palpable reality in South Africa.
Dr Frans Cronje is arguably the best public analyst in South Africa, and a dear former colleague. He deserves some criticism. His most recent diagnosis of South Africa is wrong.
South African political discourse is often obfuscated by language calculated to invoke emotion and sentiment. So it is with ‘national democratic society’, which is an offshoot of the ANC’s National Democratic Revolution.
Putting value for money at the core of all public procurement and reducing VAT to 11.5% are the core recommendations of the second paper in the IRR’s Blueprint for Growth series, Slash Waste, Cut Taxes, published today.