New critical skills list will cut skilled migration rather than expand it Ann Bernstein April 1, 2022 The government has found reasons to exclude more and more categories of skilled people from the list, leaving 101 identified skills as ‘critical’ Sin... Lack of credibility a major obstacle to Ramaphosa's proposed reforms Ann Bernstein March 13, 2022 There is a sense the country is in terminal decline and has lost the fight against an increasingly criminal elite. During his state of the nation spe... Ramaphosa’s economic reconstruction and recovery plan is a mess – time to throw the baby out with the bathwater Ann Bernstein February 7, 2022 Why does business continue to offer its support for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s October 2020 economic reconstruction and recovery plan, which is neit... Government risks missing the bus on infrastructure Ann Bernstein February 6, 2022 “Extraordinary measures are required to return us to a path of sustainable growth. Central to this effort is infrastructure construction and maintena... Wise macroeconomic management rises above pressure in budget policy statement Ann Bernstein December 1, 2021 Co-ordinated campaign against the National Treasury and the cabinet to commit to greater spending fails. The medium-term budget policy statement repr... Why ‘localisation’ is the siren song of the South African economy Antony Altbeker November 22, 2021 Localisation, the common ground in various government recovery strategies, will not lead to industrialisation, as it relies on reducing imports. Seek...
