BN@10: GG Alcock - SA has become a nation of capitalists, not socialist revolutionaries, ANC is out of touch

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In one of the most powerful interactions of the BizNews@10 conference, ’Kasinomics expert GG Alcock unpacks South Africa’s informal economy, booming entrepreneurship and out-of-touch government policies. He says this illustrates the massive disconnect between the ANC’s socialist beliefs and the capitalist reality evident everywhere in the country’s townships. It’s a wake-up call for the ANC leadership, its Blue Light Brigade whose distance from voters has caused them to act and legislate as though the country were still in the pre-1994 era. - Alec Hogg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
17 Aug 2023 5AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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