President Cyril Ramaphosa has done it again – successive GDP growths and now a drop in unemployment rate
By Mthobeli Jiwulane:
Reading the numbers, some expected it while others saw nothing from it, but one thing is for sure: something is happening in South Africa’s economy that has brought optimism about its future.
Thus, all thanks to numerous efforts, mainly state interventions, that have been put in place in the last few years to turn things around on the economic front, amidst a frenzy of criticisms from various quarters. It has been coming, but slowly and last year's GDP uptick was a telling sign.
A period of gloom and high political malaise
President Cyril Ramaphosa' much criticised plans and strategies are beginning to make an impact. It's deserved results after South Africa was confronted by a long period of continuous economic downward spiral propell...
