The Week In Review

South Africa's vaccine rollout continues to be plagued by poor administration and execution. Nicholas Crisp, deputy director general in the National Department of Health, argues its not so simple. And that is the point. It really should be. This in a week where US President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. intelligence community to "redouble their efforts" to determine how the pandemic started, including probing whether the pathogen emerged from a lab accident in the Chinese city of Wuhan, fuelling conspiracies in certain quarters that question much of the established science as we look to be considering potential lockdowns again. Treasury has also introduced a discussion paper on zero based budgeting this week while S&P provided its latest assessment and energy policy remains as contested as ever as we look to provide the foundations for growth, mired in political and regulatory constraints.

To put this into perspective Michael Avery is joined by

Warwick Lucas Chief Investment Officer at Galileo Asset Managers,

Raymond Parsons, professor in the School of Business and Governance at North West University

and

Isaah Mhlanga, Chief economist at Alexander Forbes