Smart Money - Dawie Roodt shares his views on South Africa’s economic growth prospects in 2025
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this Smart Money with Alishia Seckam interview, Dawie Roodt discusses his expectations for South Africa’s 2025 economic growth.
Roodt is an executive director, the chief economist at Efficient Group, and the chairman of Efficient Private Clients.
He is one of South Africa’s leading financial experts and among the most referenced economists in the country.
In this Smart Money interview, Roodt shares his views on South Africa’s economic growth prospects in 2025, including how much room the Reserve Bank has to manage inflation and the rand’s volatility.
He then explains how he believes South Africa can accelerate its economic growth and what he’d focus on if he controlled the government budget for 2025.
Roodt also discusses how social safety net factors contribute to South Africa’s economic growth potential and how small businesses can be used to empower the economy.
He explains how the election of US President Donald Trump impacts South Africa. He concludes the interview by advising where South Africans should invest in 2025 to secure their wealth.
Definitely the smartest economist in South Africa
No doubts about his opinion
Yes I fully agree, we are lucky to have him. Unfortunate that so few listen to him, especially the ANC
Every new year we dream of a better future just to realise our nightmare situation at the end of year
Probably the smartest economist in this country
Yes, because he speaks common sense, not leftist socialist or communistic rhetoric (like "empowerment", "social justice", "equality", "jobs for the masses")
@@tsv8664 dont forget transformation transformation transformation
Without doubt, unfortunately the ANC intentionally ignored him because he comes with solutions and it gets in the way of their corruption
We will never grow as long as this ANC is in goverment!! Take it or leave it!
I agree 100%
And their National Democratic Revolution aims at total socialist control of the economy
number one. bring down the costs of electricity and petrol. apparently in angola a liter of petrol costs around 4 rand
You are correct with the Angola price. If you want to hear something REALLY crazy, we sell petrol to Botswana at a LOWER price than what we pay for petrol in SA. It’s no longer incompetence, it’s planned pillaging. The cost of energy, as you say, is the most important, it is directly related to economic growth.
@@Alex-ze2ii thanx. we being milked dry by the anc.
DAWIE YOU MUST BE SO FRUSTRATED ..ANC IS NOT LISTENING.
The truth is we need a revolution in the Javier Milei or Donald Trump way. We do not need tinkering at the edges, we need a new economic system that is free and able to grow and provide jobs. Thats perhaps why the DA is not necessarily the right party to fix things; they are just too liberal and are tainted by liberalism. But they are WAY better than the ANC and SA would thrive under them, just not as much as with a Milei or Trump.
I fully agree with you, drastic change demands drastic measures. Right now we have a bakkie that’s completely broken down, engine has dropped onto the ground and the government is looking at it saying we can polish the paint and it will get it working again. To your point with the DA. I think the DA is a lot closer to the Milei and Trump ideas but they know that they would NEVER get enough support in SA if they went in like that. They are saying a few things they don’t really want to do as to appeal to a large group of voters. We must remember that the number one goal is to get the majority or atleast become the largest party, without that nothing else matters
American and German economies were built on small and medium sized enterprises. Multinational corporations blossomed in the technology era.
Yes small business need more people employed and working for them to strive and grow into medium size companies.
With draconian labour laws it's easier said than done.
Don't underestimate small business worth. The problem why very few small businesses become large businesses is that the cost of doing business is killing SMEs. Operational costs for a small business can be 80% of turnover, where in a large enterprise it can come down to 20%. The current "support" SMEs get from government is worthless. Scrap the "funding and support" that is wasting expenditure and relax some tax and employment laws.
In addition to racist laws su h as aa, ee, bee, bbbee, ewc and the recent proposed black transformation fund, there are at least another 20-30 million 30% factors that prevent a real meaningful growth of at least 5-6% annual growth that will result in creating jobs, and as a result increased socioeconomic stability
We as white people need to stand and vote 🗳 one party and thats UIM or Afriform.
😂 you’re mal
Its not about white, we are so past that, you should be ashamed of yourself. Its about all SA people that want to move forward and grow SA for all.
Dawie, jy is die man!
Here is some different news; I am in NZ (that they call rich, but Socialist) with some money in SA. I am making money as the NZ$ falls against the Rand.
If SA can grow the middle class with more spending power then demand and supply goes up. As long people don’t have money to spend it keeps local demand low and therefore increases exports.
Yes, small business es often fail because of lack of research and resources. Even , Elon Musk started his business small and failed many times until Spacex got him noticed. Tesla had failures, setbacks and short successes.
What is the possibility the ANC expropriate the private hospitals and be part of the NHI
Good question
Dawie. Jou opinie oor Trump se 'refugee status' aan blanke Afrikaners asb?
The analysis is missing SA the huge informal business and taxi sector. It’s not accounted for in SA GDP. Employment figures are calculated by formal employment (salary slips).
Because the taxi industry and the informal business sector is not a legal sector, it’s not beneficial to the economy because it’s not regulated. Why should a regular company like uber pay to make regulations and operate then the taxi industry doesn’t have to pay. They are a mafia and nothing more, it shouldn’t be encouraged
I don’t think the analysis that US is the most powerful economy and military might in the world. That was once true but no longer. Yes, have nuclear weapons but it’s military has been depleting and the arms industry is struggling to keep up with production. I respect Davie Roets but he appears to be singing in the same choir as the old white right views. I agree that our president needs to put SA first but this means trading and navigating within a multi lateral framework. Reality is there are other large economies besides the US. My view is old white money is pro Trump and doing his bidding while new black money says let’s diversify our trading partners . I observe the pro Trump choir seem to omit the role of BRICS because Trump is anti BRICS.
A fun fact. China hold nearly 42% of US debt🤔.
This false narrative of property rights is annoying - muddies this outlook
Please do elaborate
ua-cam.com/video/EoMnrVqmGPw/v-deo.htmlsi=llJ2bw71ShpmSJOG.......no chance, while THIS keeps going on.....💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥