Something alarming is going on at the University of Stellenbosch. About a month ago Piet le Roux, head of the research institute of the Solidarity trade union and a member of the university’s council, sent out a tweet which, in English translation, read: "Blade Nzimande and transformania won’t win. Support the Afrikaanse Alumni Association."
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John Kane-Berman wrote in Business Day : "Talk of nationalisation masks decay of our real national assets"
The committee should consider the impact of Piketty’s tax proposals, as modelled in 2014 for the US economy by Dr Michael Schuyler of the Tax Foundation in Washington DC.
AFRICAN National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Gwede Mantashe says the governing party is concerned about the prospects for recession and further ratings downgrades, and that the government must do everything possible to stage a growth recovery. In practice, quite the opposite is happening — the policies of the government seem almost calculated to engineer a recession.
What do the Nazi invasion of the Rhineland, the fate of Ahmed Timol, and African National Congress support for corruption have in common? They reveal the consequences of failing to nip evil in the bud when it first occurs.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman, the Institute's CEO, says that while the National Development Plan is fatally flawed, the ANC has done a remarkable job of getting widespread endorsement for the Plan.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argued that the South African Government has scored two own goals in its administration of the coutry. These blunders by the ANC have made even Sweden, a generous donor to the ANC during its struggle for power, voice disappointment in the ruling party.
Although the ANC realises that dissatisfaction at local level may translate into electoral losses in 2016, it can’t fix local government as long as it sticks to its revolutionary and racial ideology. The chickens are coming home to roost.
22 January 2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa has been given a blank slate by all and sundry to clean up the mess Jacob Zuma has left behind. This is not necessarily a good thing.
THE war of ideas must be fought like a real war, says the African National Congress (ANC) in one of the "discussion documents" for its national general council meeting next month.
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.
Sipho Seepe wrote in Business Day this morning that, "Convinced of its political invincibility, it [the ANC] could afford to dismiss those who held different views. Traducing critics as counter-revolutionaries worked until critics came from within. Trumped up charges were conceived against them. This saw the unravelling of the Thabo Mbeki regime."
Since then, the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have perfected the technique of using smear campaigns in the media to undermine their opponents.
John Kane-Berman, the CEO of the IRR, argues that the DA's reversal of support for aspects of the Employment Equity Bill are to its credit. He warns, however, that the ANC should not gloat about this as it will soon have to follow suit.
Frans Cronjé says President may well step-down shortly after the ANC's December 2017 conference.
SA is once again flirting with mine nationalisation. The ANC Youth League has come back to this demand, while former Congress of South African Trade Unions president Zwelinzima Vavi thinks this intervention would meet activist demands for free university education.
ALTHOUGH South Africa has been slipping down various international rankings, anyone drawing up a balance sheet of rule by the African National Congress (ANC) since it came to power in 1994 must be struck as much by the successes as by the failures.
MUCH of the forthcoming commentary on 20 years of rule by the African National Congress (ANC) is likely to play down one of its major successes. This is the extent to which it has swung the country behind its racial agenda.