The main objective of this submission is a suggestion for the serious consideration of an alternative economic plan that can create economic growth and increase the income of the government to solve the very serious fiscal problems of the growing gap between its income and expenditure, higher budget deficits and government debt.
It cannot be allowed that the country loses its status as a developing country and be downgraded to an underdeveloped country with no economic growth, even greater fiscals and socio-economic problems of poverty, famine, unemployment, inequality and human suffering. The sole intention of this submission is an honest approach with the hope that it can contribute to the creation of economic growth as well as the prosperity, progress and development of the country and all its people.
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Fanie Brink is an independent agricultural economist, advisor and mentor with more than 40 years of experience in the agricultural industry in South Africa. He was for more than 20 years a Senior Agricultural Economist with Agri SA and Deputy General Manager: Research and Development with Grain South Africa. He was most of his career directly involved in the profitability and sustainability of grain and oilseeds production, food security and the development of a biofuels strategy for the
government. He is also a member of a group of 39 economists in the country who evaluate and predict the state of the economy in South Africa every month for the Afrikaans newspapers. He obtained a BSc-Agric degree from the University of the Free State in 1974 and a MSc-Agric degree from the University of Pretoria in 1978. He is still very much involved in agriculture as an agricultural economist and adviser on the economic policy and development of South Africa.
