Your report calls for "harsh penalties". Firms are referred to as "offenders". Calls are made to delist "noncompliant" companies from the stock exchange. Employers that don’t meet racial quotas are referred to as "intransigent".
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A number of economists have argued that a short-term solution to SA’s growing budget deficit crisis is to increase VAT
It is ironic that the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) is fighting against the implementation of the same minimum wages that it helped to impose on the industry (“Union fights court bid to close clothing factories”, Business Report, July 5).
We applaud the business-friendly noises coming from some of your ministers despite the gains of the Economic Freedom Fighters in the recent election. However, we don't believe them. This stocktake will tell you why.
The Deputy CEO, Frans Cronje says that there are people in South Africa who believe land reform is one key to addressing poverty and unemployment challenges.
Like strikers, the students have the constitutional right to protest. The right only extends, however, to the person making the decision to protest. No one who decides to protest may disrupt a lecture, threaten or force someone to protest.
Much as one admires Richard Poplak’s racy style, there was a worrying lack of substance in his piece about the EFF’s Floyd Shivambu the other day. If you don’t mind, I’d like to take up a spade and shovel some facts into the vacuum.
4 March 2018 - The ANC’s shift towards expropriating land without paying compensation has prompted a warning from the Wall Street Journal.
9 January 2018 - The political and economic environment, which addresses education, health and unemployment, is what changes inequality. By SARA GON
You write in your editorial (A thug state in the making, April 13) that most South Africans don’t see Julius Malema as dangerous but rather as laughable.
The High Court in Cape Town has ruled in favour of the My Vote Counts campaign and ordered Parliament to make provision in the next 18 months for political parties to publicly disclose private funding.
16 February 2018 - Ramaphosa came to power in December with the most narrow of majorities in his party and quite possibly, at first, a minority on its national executive committee.
What SA needs are proper schools, vastly increased investment and effective incentives to business to expand the jobs they offer. Instead, however, the ruling party is once again seeking to truss the private sector up in yet more reams of unworkable red tape.
"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."
[Business Day] report that the new Black Business Council — having suspended its membership of Business Unity SA (Busa) — now has a long list of "wants" (Black business ratchets up pressure on Busa, September 8).
The cadre deployment policy that enables corruption retains the support of many of Zuma’s critics. Racial preferencing laws that increase the costs of goods and services and allow inexperienced people to be promoted to jobs they cannot do will not be repealed when Zuma goes.
There is a myth held by some, who try to make racial identity compatible with the idea of self-definition, that racial identity is acceptable so long as individuals can define blackness* for themselves. This view is nonsensical. But some liberals cling to it because they wish to bridge the gulf between individuality and racial identity; either because race is an important part of their own identity or because it is an important part of the electorate’s identity.
John Kane-Berman on the contradictions of big business' new fund to support SMEs.
Deservedly, Pravin Gordhan’s budget has been widely praised. But a fundamental question arises: does the country get value for money from a government which appropriates an increasing slice of GDP? Here is what John Kane-Berman wrote in today's edition of Business Day:
The CEO of the Institute, John Kane-Berman, argues that some in the government and the ANC are slowly but surely strangling the economy.