ANALYSIS: Sanity Check: ANC 2019 Election Manifesto’s promises vs SA’s pesky reality By Rebecca Davis becsplanb
in January 2019, include “high input costs such as labour, property, energy and company tax”; battery theft and vandalism; the cost of upgrading the network, and the hilly topography of South Africa.
2020 is now less than nine months away, and the government is nowhere close to achieving that target. Indeed,had received the planned broadband rollout. Challenges have included a lack of infrastructure and budget. The ANC government will ‘establish a state-owned pharmaceutical company as part of our programme to promote an affordable and reliable supply of medication’.
With South Africa’s inglorious record of managing state-owned enterprises, there is a valid reason for concern when it comes to the life-or-death matter of, for instance, ensuring sufficient and timely production of the country’s ARVs.
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