HeyJaredPeter Attard Montalto
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PETER ATTARD MONTALTO | Waiting on reform: Why SA’s growth is on hold (opens the original)
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There has been an outpouring of angst since the release of the latest GDP data. There isn’t growth. Shock. In the investment data there is no growth in fixed capital formation and no higher share in (hopefully larger) GDP either. We are stuck at about 13.6% of output. Consumption is never really blamed, though why that isn’t faster is also an interesting question (mainly because broad real incomes aren’t growing, partly because employment isn’t either). The investment problem is often blamed on
PETER ATTARD MONTALTO | Procurement reform is key to South Africa’s growth (opens the original)
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Clients sometimes despair and ask me: “what’s the one thing that no-one has thought of to get faster growth?” Yesterday’s decisively “meh” GDP data focuses the mind further on such questions. The question is ridiculous. South Africa knows its problems and the answers; the issue is implementation and managing expectations during long, complex work to get things moving. South Africa’s growth problem is an onion with layers of constraining issues. Just because we focus on some key issues and solve
PETER ATTARD MONTALTO | The struggle of doing the hard things (opens the original)
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Can South Africa do hard things? When I meet new diplomats who have just arrived in South Africa, they often say they are excited by the “opportunity and potential” of the country because of how we navigated the end of apartheid. I call it the “Mandela, rainbows and unicorns” vibe, and most of them ditch this as soon as they make contact with reality. Unfortunately, as the ANC will no doubt find in the forthcoming elections, the past is very much in the past and is no guarantee of delivering the
PETER ATTARD MONTALTO | Regulators may define Ramaphosa’s lasting legacy (opens the original)
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Everyone will know well the story of Marelize, the bike, the rugby posts and the exasperated mother. We can all sympathise with the mother at the moment, it would seem. The messiness of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) CEO and board dramas and the Independent Directorate Against Corruption head Andrea Johnson (even the current blue-on-blue catfights): all these see a headlong collision with the rugby posts and exasperation. But they also hint at something deeper: people want simple binari
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