SA’s performance on a range of social, economic and governance measures deteriorated more in the past 12 years than any other nation not at war, according to Eunomix Business and Economics.
The decline is likely to continue as the country wrestles with the consequences of nine years of worsening corruption and policy paralysis under former president Jacob Zuma, the Johannesburg-based political-risk advisory company said.
The fragility of the economy may also limit the tenure of his successor Cyril Ramaphosa, who faces his first national election on May 8, it said.
“There is the strongest likelihood of him being a one-term president,” Claude Baissac, the head of a Eunomix, said in an interview. “He is starting with a very weak economy, the weakest of any president since Mandela. He is also starting with a fairly weak hand from a political standpoint.”
An index of security, governance, prosperity and welfare indicators shows SA
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