Attention should be focused on what the ANC government plans to do about the deepening socio-economic crisis that grips SA, says this analysis on the University of Natal's Centre for Civil Society website. President Mbeki placed poverty eradication and the creation of jobs at the centre of his recent State of the nation Address. The question being asked is this home-grown structural adjustment programme thankfully now being abandoned? Not likely, says the article. "In essence we have a sophistication of the GEAR strategy not its abandonment. Macro-economic strategies are being complimented by a series of micro-economic reforms that government hopes will lead to increased economic growth."