Sinawo Thambo – Chairperson of the Western Cape EFF Students Command
On 28 August 2019, the National Treasury released a paper it deemed a policy perspective towards economic growth and reform for South Africa.
As a perspective, it was separated into six thematic areas where specific sectors which are critical to the economic stability of the country are targeted, with supposed strategies to boost them to ensure substantial levels of growth and long-term employment opportunities.
The policy paper has been released for public comment, and there has been a tentative response to it as South Africans sift through it for a signal of hope from a regime that has had an aura of renewal around it since before its assumption of office.
Sadly, the perspective is as empty as the rhetoric of the “new dawn” itself. Characterised by the long and tedious use of English, it serves more as a
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