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The Road Traffic Infringement Agency’s Chief Executive Officer, Japh Chuwe, was recently suspended amidst allegations of “serious maladministration” by the Auditor-General.

This as the highly controversial Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Act (AARTO), is scheduled to be implemented in July this year.

Michael Avery sat down with Gavin Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of The Road Freight Association, to find out what this development means for AARTO’s troubled and controversial road to implementation.

Paul Hoffman, director of Accountability Now

Shawn Theunissen, PropertyPoint Founder

David Lewis, Exec Director of Corruption Watch

Dario Milo is a partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice at Webber Wentzel

Nick Kunze, portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth

South Africans, the few who chose to watch the virtual State of the Nation address, and many who preferred to skip it and get the highlights of promises made and broken, were searching for signs of light to gauge how far down the tunnel we actually are.

Make no mistake, President Cyril Rampahosa has been dealt the worst hand ever by a South African president, coming in on the back of ten years of naked looting and corruption, which was preceded by ten years of slightly less obvious feeding at the trough of taxpayer funds.

He had his hands full recapacitating the state to take the much needed, and promised, economic reforms forward from plans on a piece of paper to actual implantable actionable outcomes, measured and, monitored and evaluated.

And then, as it appeared the reform agenda was getting into stride, Covid struck.

The speech was focussed on four pillars: defeat Covid; accelerate the economic recovery; accelerate economic reform to drive inclusive growth; and fight corruption. A determined focus on those priorities will help to address an array of the country's problems. But many slip twixt cup and lip as they say.

Michael Avery spoke to Warwick Lucas Chief Investment Officer at Galileo Asset Managers, & Raymond Parsons, professor in the School of Business and Governance at North West University, to find out how close we are to that light at the end of the tunnel after the President’s SONA.

Anthea Gardner, MD Cartesian Capital

Saleem Sonday, head of group savings at Allan Gray

Prof Adrian Puren, head of the Centre for HIV and STIs at NICD