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MICHAEL MORRIS: From Elizabeth I to corrupt SA, stunting new ideas comes at a cost - Business Day
In their expansive account of economic history, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson provide a vivid glimpse of the cost of overweening power ...
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EWC, BEE setting up Godongwana and GNU for failure – IRR
Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana’s hopes of advancing the GNU’s pro-growth ambitions are critically undermined by the weakening of property rights and the ...
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Anthea Jeffery on the Multiparty Charter: Uniting for growth, challenging socialist legacy - Biznews
The Multiparty Charter embraced last week by the Democratic Alliance, the Inkatha Freedom Party, Action SA, the Freedom Front Plus and three other political ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: What the Cape taxi strike showed SA - Business Day
Every now and then events strip away the shroud of familiarity that gives reality its placid, deceptive appearance of circumstances so routine that it’s hard ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: The ANC’s search for meaning is stuck in the past - Business Day
By a confluence of things that could not have been designed for better effect, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula succeeded spectacularly last week in ...
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Cut VAT to 11.5% to give stressed South Africans some relief – IRR
Recent reports highlight the considerable financial pressure South Africans are under.
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Budget for BEE cut
The IRR has requested that Treasury consider implementing a “maximum value-for-money” procurement policy, or at least publish a budgetary analysis of what ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Thankfully history churns ceaselessly - Business Day
I well remember how, as the 1980s dragged on, writing about SA and its fundamental unignorables — all those problems that were as obvious as they were ...
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Halt in NHI drive an opportunity to dump catastrophic scheme and avoid costly 'life-shedding' – IRR
The IRR is heartened by what appears to be a deliberate halt in the ANC's attempt to bulldoze the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme into law. This ...
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Latest IRR reports assess ANC and DA economic policy proposals
How South Africa’s two biggest parties, the ANC and the DA, shape up in meeting the primary national challenge of stimulating economic growth is the thrust of ...
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