The ANC seeks economic salvation in all the wrong places.
It’s not to be found in slavish imitation of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian template for China’s developmental state. It’s not to be achieved by robotically following Karl Marx’s century-old map towards a socialist nirvana. Nor, most implausibly of all, by chugging the ANC’s home-brew Kool-Aid of both the above, the heady draught of the National Democratic Revolution.
The route to regaining our economic mojo is less