The Institute's CEO, John Kane-Berman, writes that the ANC is stripping away its respectability and revealing the unpleasantness underneath. This is due to recent ANC reaction to Brett Murray's 'The Spear' painting, attacks on Nedbank CEO Reuel Khoza after his complaints of government ineptitude, and the Protection of State Information Bill to stop the Media reporting on corruption under the guise of protecting national security.
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John Kane-Berman, CEO of the Institute, says that it is now clear that one of the key objectives of the ANC and the SACP is to put all aspects of the criminal justice system and security under political control.
John Kane-Berman argues that the flood of Media reports on corruption is actually a positive sign. It shows that corrupt behaviour by the Government is no longer being tolerated by its employees.
More and more people now recognise the disastrous consequences of the cadre deployment policy of the African National Congress.
The venom spat at Nedbank chairman Reuel Khoza by the ANC and the government it controls is significantly more poisonous than any previously directed publicly at businessmen who criticised them.
How seriously must we take the recent discussion document on "the second transition" in which the African National Congress (ANC) reiterates its commitment to the "national democratic revolution"? Some of the comment has been dismissed as "alarmist" or "hysterical".
Under HF Verwoerd, black education was deliberately starved of funds. Now education is funded more generously than any other item in the budget — and still children start the year without books.
"If Mr Vavi can make the ANC look so bad over an issue such as tolling, just think what he could do with the fact that 50% of young people do not work or have not completed their schooling."
The Institute's research manager, Lucy Holborn, says that feelings of persecution by some Afrikaners in South Africa are not supported by the facts.
Instead of thumb-suck targets and flawed assumptions, we need a land policy that helps established small-scale black farmers to expand.
Queen Elizabeth’s reign — during which she has outlasted 12 British prime ministers and 12 US presidents — has been a huge success.
Jobs and growth are coming back into focus and this opens the way for three policy reforms that will be necessary if the government is to meet its growth and employment targets