Let vigilance be your watchword

Demosthenes was an Athenian statesman and orator. He lived from 380 to 322 BC and his bust is preserved in the Louvre in Paris. The following is attributed to him and may have inspired St Paul in penning his letter

ANC blames foreigners for SA’s jobs disaster 

Government is pointing the finger at foreigners instead of taking the decisions to boost job creation. It has introduced the Employment Services Amendment Bill into Parliament that seeks to regulate the employment of foreign nationals.

Fikile Mbalula collapses: Fear in the ANC

Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the ANC’s court victory, which puts its missing candidates on the ballot in a number of municipalities. They also discuss a political murder near a hostel and tensions between the IFP and MK Party

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Minister Ntshavheni, is BEE of national interest or ANC patronage networks’ interest? 

Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni recently defended South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy against the United States’ criticism. The Minister was responding to questions regarding how South Africa intends to overcome its diplomatic impasse with the United States.

Seeing Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma through dystopian French literature

In September 2015, not three weeks after Germany temporarily suspended the Dublin Regulation for Syrian asylum seekers that would eventually see between 890,000 and 1.1m people added to that country’s population, the English translation of the brilliant French writer Michel

How reliable an ally is the US?

Biased reporting underplays global shifts and the US’s core interests.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s IRR webinar on overcoming BEE’s failures

BEE is a barrier to growth, and finding a genuinely empowering alternative is vital. This is the thrust of the latest report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Breaking the BEE Barrier to Growth. At tomorrow’s 10am online launch,