by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 27, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Restive: the volk is becoming restive – the economic damage (it’s about the economy, stupid!) wrought by the junta-imposed lockdown, is becoming such that folk are openly ridiculing, indeed disobeying, those that govern us. Examples of this abound and are not...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 20, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics South Africa is reportedly in the 80th month of a weakening economic cycle, of which only the last three can fairly be attributed to CV 19. Self-made? Certainly. I was intrigued to hear a political commentator decline naming Zimbabwe as a failed state,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 13, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy B4SA, supported by BBC, and BUSA, made a proposal that infrastructure forms the flywheel of our financial recovery to the tune of R3.4Tr. What is true is that such development would create jobs and multiply the value of the sum spent considerably. Our problem,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 6, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy More or less? I am confused as to where we should go, economically speaking. Should we tighten our economic belt, spend more, or both? Tito has called for the former; this week a bunch of PhD’s and similar, called for more expenditure. My gut says that you...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 30, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy I don’t believe we have an economic or financial problem in South Africa. We have a political problem. Dawie Rood ‘Potamus rising: the world debt is, on average 100% of world GDP. Ours sits at 81% of our GDP. Better than many, but, when we are spending 21% of...
