John Kane-Berman argues that very few believe in the Government's latest promise to create five million new jobs in the next ten years.
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John Kane-Berman argues that the Government's new plan to create five million new jobs over a ten year period is nothing new, neither of which is the widespread criticism that has met it.
The government says the current Expropriation Act of 1975 is unconstitutional and has to be replaced. To this end, it has recently put forward a reworked Expropriation Bill, but this Bill is just as unconstitutional as the present statute.
Thousands of young people have had another day of lectures wiped from their academic schedule. Their plans keep having to change. Important tests are being cancelled at the last minute. They don’t know when their schedules will resume.
Donald Trump's election to the American presidency not only confounded pollsters and freaked out the media, it also made fools of some of the film stars who strut the global political stage. These worthy personages seem to operate on the assumption that being a celebrity automatically confers upon them a special wisdom not bestowed
As the 21st anniversary of SA’s first all-race election approaches on April 27, the country "still boils with white racism".
To get higher levels of growth, South Africa needs investment. That will not happen if entrepreneurs are held up as villains who cause other people to be poor.
South Africa’s bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with China gives Chinese investors all the standard protections that BITs commonly contain. Chinese investors thus have a right to fair and equitable treatment, the full market value of expropriated investments, and international arbitration to settle any disputes. They can also easily take back to China both the capital they have invested in South Africa and the profits or returns that this has generated.
According to a recent report by the parliamentary budget office, average electricity tariffs went up in real terms by 170% between 2007 and 2015. The retiring head of electricity regulation at Nersa, Thembani Bukula, said that if Eskom improved efficiencies,
12 March 2018 - Beneficiaries of reform are only leaseholders, and holdings by trusts, companies and the state must be included, writes Terence Corrigan.
2 March 2018 - The ruling ANC’s shift towards a constitutional amendment allowing it to expropriate land without paying compensation has prompted a warning from the Wall Street Journal that “(s)eizing private property has produced misery everywhere it has been tried. South Africans don’t need more of that.”
A number of issues mean that the judiciary currently being able to ‘reflect broadly the racial and gender composition’ of SA isn’t possible.
All three of the leading supporters of the Expropriation Bill — Radebe, Nxesi and Cronin — are leading members of the South African Communist Party. Getting this bill through Parliament will be one of their greatest coups yet.
Anthea Jeffery responds to Coenraad Bezuidenhout's defence of the controversial legislation.
12 January 2018 - So goes the narrative around the controversial policy stance adopted by the ANC’s 54th elective conference last month. For supporters and detractors alike, it is a policy aimed at South Africa’s farmland and its farming economy, something which most of the country will watch – with anticipation or trepidation – from afar
THE more the government fails with the basics, the more it takes refuge in fantasy. It cannot keep the lights on, stop rhino poaching, or get the teachers it employs to spend more than three hours a day in class, but it will now mass-produce black industrialists and black farmers. That’s in addition to achieving "energy sovereignty", setting up a Brics bank, establishing our own shipping fleet, and creating a "mining champion".
Sara Gon says minister's obsession with racial proportionality, above all else, has a Goebbels-esque whiff about it.
Founded in 1929, the IRR is but two years away from celebrating its 90th birthday. Throughout its history, the organisation has fought racial discrimination and promoted the principle of equality before the law. It has also argued that promotions and appointments should be made on merit rather than on racial grounds. It has also applied these principles in its own operations.
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.
IT IS common to hear anti-mining activists suggesting that the South African mining industry is exploitative and that it fails to contribute any real social and economic benefits to South Africa. The facts tell a very different story.