Brand South Africa’s false narrative on country’s reform path

FINANCED by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, the claim by Brand South Africa that the country's "reform path is winning back investor confidence" (Business Report, October 24) is government propaganda at its worst because it totally evades truth and reality.

- DR DUNCAN DU BOIS | Bluff

Pompously, Neville Matjie, Brand SA's CEO, asserts that despite geopolitical flux, "South Africa continues to distinguish itself as a nation of endurance and depth."

Since unpacking how this experience distinguishes us would contradict his narrative, Matjie avoids doing so and instead forges into the pastures of pretence.

He holds that the EU's €11.5 billion investment package "is recognition that confidence in South Africa is not misplaced."

But one wonders who is fooling who? The EU's confidence has everything to do with advancing its globalist strategy, which, through indebtedness, enables it to increase its leverage over South Africa.