The nuts and bolts of radical economic transformation
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A woman washes clothes in front of an ANC election poster stuck to the shack she and her family live in at Waterworks, an informal settlement outside Soweto, on May 9 2011. (Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters)
ECONOMY
At President Jacob Zuma’s second inauguration, he vowed that economic transformation would “take centre stage” during his last term of office.
He promised that “the structure of the economy will be transformed through industrialisation, broad-based black economic empowerment and through strengthening and expanding the role of the state in the economy”.
That the economy would assume centre stage should not come as a surprise. It is part of the normal course of the evolution of statehood.