Redress requires the economy to grow

The 'core job', as Gwen Ramokgopa describes it, is achieving 5% economic growth — whatever it takes

01 June 2025 - 00:00

US President Donald Trump’s propensity to tell lies may turn out to have done South Africa some good. His insistence — in a televised ambush of President Cyril Ramaphosa in Washington last month — that there is a genocide against white Afrikaner farmers has generated shrill debate at home and abroad...

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