What exactly is in store for us South Africans in the Twenty-Twenties? It’s a vital question not only for business and for investors, but for us all on the most personal level.
Of course it’s also a question that’s a lot easier to ask than to answer. As Nobel Prize winning physicist Niels Bohr put it: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future” – witness the new COVID-19 coronavirus scare which has suddenly popped up with its game-changing impacts on the world and world economies.
Nevertheless as Clem Sunter (remember his “High Road or Low Road?” speeches in the late Eighties?) reminds us, we can and should still use scenario planning to ready ourselves for any one of a whole variety of possible futures…
