Professor Parsons says government must focus on accelerating key structural reforms [SOUND]

# North-West University Business School economist, professor Raymond Parsons, says there needs to be a renewed emphasis on accelerating key structural reforms. The International Monetary Fund has reduced South Africa’s 2025 gross domestic product growth forecast from 1.5-percent to one-percent. The IMF is also projecting the country will reach a growth rate of only 1.8-percent by 2030. Parsons says this is simply not good enough for the country given its socioeconomic challenges: