John Kane-Berman says the ANC's NDR needs to be replaced with something completely different.
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The report said that the proportion of the population in poverty had increased from 53.2% in 2011 to 55.5% in 2015. "There can surely be no greater indictment of any government's performance than the number of people living in poverty rising on their watch," declared Mr Maimane.
Events of the past two weeks have not been good for SA’s prospects of staging an economic recovery. Key Cabinet ministers put on display the worst aspects of an ideologically obstinate government acting very much against the best interests of the country.
Consider that, in the economy, growth rates rebounded from the negative levels recorded through much of the 1980s and early 1990s to average just on 3% between 1994 and 2003 and over 5% between 2004 and 2007. Total real GDP more than doubled.
A handful of Bills, either recently enacted or soon-to-be are floating through undiscussed, stipulating the chopping and changing ownership of long-held land as suits the government, not to mention the dabbling with mining regulations that puts the entire economy under threat. Time to wake up and join the conversation.
7 January 2018 - If nothing else, however, electoral considerations give the ANC an interest in getting rid of Mr Zuma as soon as possible. Whereas impeachment is a quasi-judicial process, at the end of which removal would require a two-thirds majority, there is a much swifter, cleaner, and simpler solution. This is the parliamentary no-confidence vote, which is a political remedy that requires only a simple majority
Cosatu has been an enabler of State Capture and was a driving force behind Zuma’s ascending to the presidency. It can’t now divest itself of responsibility for a formal programme adopted 10 years ago and remain in the Alliance.
Sara Gon says the term has come to refer to a kind of immutable uncorrectable incompetence.
DESPITE the fact that South African labour law makes it easy for trade union officials to call workers out on strike, and that strikes enjoy legal protection, more than half of the strikes that occur in the country are "unprotected".
Organisation says poor black households carry majority of SA's air-pollution burden.
Fixing education system, creating jobs will foster reconciliation.
The Institute submitted the letter below to the Cape Times in support of what it described as Helen Zille's 'courageous stance on quotas in her Western Cape cabinet'.
Frans Cronje argues that both business and the Government should think long and hard about their role in South Africa when the things they squabble over have lost relevance to ordinary people.
7 May 2018 - President Cyril Ramaphosa has termed it the “original sin”. Land must be returned, deputy president David Mabuza adds, to its “rightful owners”. The Economic Freedom Fighters said on Human Rights Day that “until there is justice and equality in relation to land, until the dignity of black people is restored through access to land”, the humans rights project would be “incomplete”. Academic and public intellectual Nomboniso Gasa remarks revealingly: ‘Land is not just about land. It is a metaphor for freedom, belonging and security.
12 February 2018 - "Most people would seem to believe the last 20 years have hardly revolutionised their lives."
The media doesn't have to endorse anybody but the media is singularly the most crucial source of information running up to an election. But we're not getting it.
Narrow road: Frans Cronjé on the possibility of the party turning to the economic right.
John Kane-Berman questions the wisdom of such an intervention in a country with 8,2m unemployed.
"Condemn us when children die of contaminated water." That, according to Cyril Ramaphosa, deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC) and the country, is one of the media's jobs. He was speaking on 20 June at the annual Nat Nakasa award for courageous journalism hosted by the South African National Editors' Forum.
In the halcyon days of life under Nelson Mandela, it was impossible to imagine how the the ANC could transform into a party that protects the personal interests of a few at the expense of the vast majority that it represents. Phumlani Majozi of the Institute of Race Relations pulls no punches in his assessment of the current state of the ANC.