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Smuggling in a permanent income support grant via the back door

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Lindiwe Zulu, minister of social development, is seeking to smuggle in a permanent ‘social relief of distress’ grant by means of regulations on which she

Time for the courts to strike down BEE

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Last week the Constitutional Court struck down the Preferential Procurement Regulations (the Regulations) gazetted in 2017 by the then finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, under the

More reason for Ramaphosa to veto the Employment Equity Amendment Bill

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The Zondo commission’s recent reports have provided chapter-and-verse on the fraud and inflated pricing that bedevilled so many of the Gupta-linked procurement contracts entered into

High Court 1, Constitutional Court 0 on paralysed local councils

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In the past fortnight, two meetings of the Johannesburg metropolitan council have ‘descended into chaos’, in the graphic words of Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John

How to counter the Expropriation and Land Court Bills

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Now that the ANC’s attempt to rewrite the property clause (Section 25) in the Constitution has been defeated, the ruling party plans to achieve its

Ratcheting up the EWC risk yet again

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The ANC’s failure to secure a two-thirds majority for the EWC (Expropriation without Compensation) Constitutional Amendment Bill (formally the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill) in December

The truth about the April 1994 election

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The Daily Friend is rerunning some of our most-read articles over the festive season. This week marks the 27th anniversary of 27th April 1994. This date commemorates

Employment or EWC – what do ordinary South Africans want?

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This article was first published on 8 April 2021. Certain events have passed but the article is still pertinent to us going into 2022 [Ed.]

Why Ramaphosa should veto employment ‘equity’ bill

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Last week the National Assembly adopted the Employment Equity (EE) Amendment Bill of 2020 (the Bill). The National Council of Provinces is now expected to

The wild dogs should NOT lie down with the buffalo

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Many South Africans have been waiting, says incoming IRR CEO John Endres, for ‘a single mighty lion to bring down the old buffalo that is