PAGE 3 PAGE 5 PAGE 7 FINANCE// PARTNER CONTENT// LIGHT// HONEST INTERVIEW JOBURG INDABA SUPER RUGBY WITH HERSOV NUGGETS UNLOCKED BizTHE RATIONAL PERSPECTIVENewsDigest WWW.BIZNEWS.COM FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2020 BIZNEWSCOM Cyril’s 6-point rescue plan BRIEFS In one of his most commanding performances since taking office in December 2017, President Cyril Absa PMI Index Ramaphosa yesterday unveiled South Africa’s ambitious reconstruction and recovery plan. Already limping before the coronavirus arrived in March, the economy was dealt a devastating blow by the 58.3 pandemic over the past six months. But a cautiously optimistic prognosis of Covid-19, and the renowned September 2020 resilience of the South African nation emboldened Ramaphosa to share his New Deal that is both far- reaching in its vision for the economy to grow by at least 3% on average over the next 10 years, and specific in the six interventions planned over the next four years. 10.8% By Derek Alberts manufacuring production joint sitting of parliament decline in August recently listened to the president who identified Athe six key interventions of the economic reconstruction and 8.2% recovery plan: 1. To achieve sufficient, secure and SA economy reliable energy supply within to decline two years; in 2020 2. To create and support over 800,000 work opportunities in the immediate term to respond to job losses; 3. To unlock more than R1 trillion 37.5% in infrastructure investment decline in over the next four years; 4. To reduce data costs for every vehicle exports South African and expand year to date broadband access to low- income households; 5. To reverse the decline of the local manufacturing sector and Eskom’s promote re-industrialisation The recovery, Ramaphosa vowed, a massive rollout of infrastructure Read the full article here through deeper levels of will be propelled by swift reforms throughout the country. overdue debt localisation and exports; and and supported by an efficient a rapid expansion of energy Read also: 6. To resuscitate vulnerable state that is committed to clean generation capacity As economy shrinks, R31bn sectors such as tourism, which governance. an employment stimulus to create Ramaphosa urges national have been hardest hit by the The plan is underpinned by four jobs and support livelihoods; and effort to rebuild the economy pandemic. priority interventions: a drive for industrial growth. 337,745 Subscribe now tons of plastic Best in business news. 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The chamber said 56% of respondents expected trade conditions to improve in orn into wealth and the next six months as trade activity continues to recover. privilege, Rob Hersov, scion of the Anglovaal Bmining dynasty, is a firm believer Inter-bank transfers point to resurgent 3Q in the virtues of hard work. The BankservAfrica Economic Transaction Index (BETI), a Schooled at Michaelhouse and measurement of economic transactions between local banks, graduating from UCT, Hersov improved for the fourth consecutive month in September. The index also holds a Harvard MBA that calculated by Economists.co.za suggests that South Africa’s 3Q prepared him for an exceptional GDP print “will be the strongest on record”. September’s headline entrepreneurial career. BETI was marginally higher for the first time in six months. “The It’s a life journey that trawled the unexpected improvement of 0.4% − the first since March 2020 and lows of a failed business way ahead Rob Hersov Alec Hogg a significant shift from -4.3% in August 2020 − is welcome news,” it of the broadband curve, and the said. “With the latest data, we are convinced that the GDP growth highs, perhaps best exemplified by for Q3 2020 is likely to be the fastest on record − or at least since selling a private jet business to the the future. I said technology, and “The country needs to get rid of 1946.