BLSA CEO’s letter 01 March
POSTED ON: March 1, 2021 IN BLSA CEO's Weekly, Covid-19, Economic growth, Economic policy, Energy, Infrastructure by BLSA
By Busi Mavuso
The move to level 1 will help more South Africans get back to work and will give a boost to the economic recovery.
BUDGET |Welcome reprieve, but we shouldn’t forget Mboweni’s Argentina warnings yet
POSTED ON: February 25, 2021 IN Covid-19, Economic growth, Economic policy, Employment, Energy, Infrastructure, Political economy, small business, SOEs by BLSA
By Busi Mavuso
What a “positive” difference a few months can make in the life and finances of a country considering that just last year Finance Minister Tito Mboweni sounded alarm bells.
BLSA reaction to budget speech
POSTED ON: February 24, 2021 IN Covid-19, Economic growth, Economic policy, Employment, Infrastructure by BLSA
By BLSA
Business Leadership welcomes Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s budget which showed the fruits of better-than-expected economic recovery and tax collection over the past several months.
State of the Nation: Corruption should be the focus
POSTED ON: February 11, 2021 IN Covid-19, Economic policy, Energy, Infrastructure, Political economy, Politics, SOEs by BLSA
By Busi Mavuso
President Cyril Ramaphosa faces a mammoth task of leading the charge to tackle the pandemic, with a death toll nearing 50,000, when he delivers his Sona speech.
Vaccine, then reforms to get the economy going
POSTED ON: February 4, 2021 IN Covid-19, Economic policy, Employment, Energy, Infrastructure, SOEs, Unemployment by BLSA
By Busi Mavuso
The successful rollout of vaccines to health workers will provide the country with an opportunity to redirect its efforts to put the economy back on a recovery trajectory.
Infrastructure and growth
POSTED ON: November 5, 2020 IN Economic policy, Infrastructure by Admin
By Busi Mavuso
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It’s imperative that we work together to unlock infrastructure opportunities that will stimulate the economy
BLSA reacts to the MTBPS
POSTED ON: October 28, 2020 IN Covid-19, Economic policy, Employment, Infrastructure by Admin
By BLSA
Today’s MTBPS speech carried far more significance given the crisis we are in.
Focus on unproductive behaviour
POSTED ON: October 27, 2020 IN Infrastructure, Political economy by Admin
In mapping out South Africa’s recovery, much of the focus is on economic analysis but too little is on “unproductive behaviour” that needs to be fixed, Miriam Altman, director of Altman Advisory, told a BLSA special council meeting on Thursday.
BLSA CEO’s weekly letter -11 August
POSTED ON: August 11, 2020 IN BLSA CEO's Weekly, Economic policy, Infrastructure, Political economy by Admin
By Busi Mavuso
SA Breweries, Heineken and Consol Glass have frozen R13bn of investment. But that doesn’t begin to reflect how much investment we’re losing.
South Africa inadequately prepared for digital age
POSTED ON: July 13, 2020 IN Covid-19, Infrastructure by Admin
By Tebele Luthuli
Access to information is the new way of being in and part of the world in today’s digital age. But this brings its own problems – for which SA is unfortunately inadequately prepared.