TLU SA says the reversal of the VAT hike is merely a plaster on an open wound [SOUND]

# Agricultural organisation TLU SA says the country’s greatest shortfall is not a fiscal deficit, but a deficit of integrity, competence, and political will. The organisation has welcomed the scrapping of the 0.5-percent value-added tax hike but says this is merely a plaster on an open wound. TLU SA’s, Bennie van Zyl, says the crisis facing the economy is not the result of a single fiscal decision, but rather decades of structurally damaging policies: