economic policy – Mandla Isaacs

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Quick take: On President Ramaphosa’s economic advisor saying naysayers should stop talking the economy down

Feb 9, 2021Feb 9, 2021 - 12:08

Trudi Makhaya – President Ramaphosa’s economic advisor – wrote a prickly op-ed in Business Day this week. In a very elaborate way, she basically accused some in our public discourse of being unduly negative about

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Ramaphosa’s historic opportunity: towards a generational economic transformation after the pandemic

By Mandla Isaacs on

Sep 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020 - 17:58

A version of this article was published in Daily Maverick on April 23, 2020. It can be difficult to put our economic stagnation in perspective. We’ve become accustomed to high unemployment. As then-Minister of Planning Trevor Manuel said way back

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Covid-19 is stretching government’s economic policymaking capacity to the limit

By Mandla Isaacs on

Sep 24, 2020Sep 24, 2020 - 18:00

A version of this article was published in Daily Maverick on April 14, 2020. I am concerned about our policymakers’ grasp of the economic impact of the pandemic and lockdown, as well as their ability to respond to it. In