State officials met business and labour union representatives on Thursday to discuss ways to revive an economy set to contract this year by the most in nine decades.
“There are good people inside the presidential economic advisory council and among the analysts at National Treasury, for example, but why are they not being mobilised to do the research to form a coherent plan?” “He promised in April that we would have it ‘within days’,” she said, adding that it was clear from the presentation that “not much has really been done since”.