Clem Sunter on lifting lockdown: Diving into depression vs fresh Covid-19 spike

Clem Sunter is one of South Africa's most respected strategists, making an indelible mark on the birth of the new South Africa which followed his High Road scenario of negotiated settlement rather than the Low Road of political turmoil. In this in-depth interview with BizNews editor-in-chief Alec Hogg, Sunter - a prolific author of strategy books who had a successful career at Anglo American - examines the options that governments have as they start to lift lockdowns designed to contain Covid-19. Sunter also shares his assessment of the mixed signals we have been receiving from the data and research produced on the incidence and transmission of Covid-19 and its death rate. Like Stanford professor of medicine Prof Jay Bhattacharya, who also has a PhD in economics and has concluded that the Covid-19 figures guiding government policies need to be reworked, Sunter points to a delicate balancing act between suppressing economies to save some lives and re-opening business to protect others. - Jackie Cameron