South Africa: Fixing the Economy - the Quest for a 'Social Compact'

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Ignoring the radical economic transformation rhetoric, and the EFF's tactics of divide and conquer, the state, labour and private sector could find each other in the quest to forge a social compact.

Nothing focuses the mind as much as a gaping hole in public finances and an unemployment rate that if unchecked will reach 50% of the population, tipping South Africa into a spiral of social unrest and repressive state control that will do untold damage.

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