The electorate won’t do it. The government can’t do it. Now business is going to have a whirl.
Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa and some ministers met business leaders, after months of increasingly strident corporate warnings that South Africa was heading towards collapse. It was agreed that business would get four economic sectors: energy – where it is already involved – transport and logistics and crime.
Business has always been skittish of drawing fire by entering the political arena. That it has done so now with such alacrity – the meeting
