Risk Alert | Austerity or reform?

23 November 2020 - In this week’s client Risk Alert, Frans Cronje and Bheki Mahlobo discuss the botched retrenchments at the SABC and what the resultant backlash signifies about power dynamics within the government.

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As organised business groups lobby for civil service job cuts, will austerity measures strengthen anti-reform and anti-business activists within the Tripartite Alliance?

Cronje and Mahlobo conclude by turning their attention to East Asia, where a new multilateral trade agreement promises to strengthen China’s hand in the region.