Anthea Jeffery

Patricia de Lille, minister of public works and infrastructure, relies on invective, insult, and falsehood – rather than the ‘fact’ and ‘honesty’ she claims– in

Speaking last month to the Progressive Business Forum – a group of BEE and other businesses that pay the African National Congress (ANC) significant sums

Despite the many pious platitudes in last week’s SONA (state-of-the-nation address), the only ‘reforms’ President Cyril Ramaphosa is busy implementing are the policy shifts needed

The government and other commentators – in describing the Expropriation Bill of 2020 as ‘a good piece of legislation’ which ‘carefully circumscribes’ the powers of

When the Expropriation Bill of 2020 (the Bill) was gazetted in October last year, Deputy President David Mabuza claimed that it would ‘address the injustices

The SACP/ANC alliance has long wanted a wealth tax to help ‘discipline’ capital and advance the Freedom Charter’s goal of ‘sharing’ the country’s wealth. The

In pushing ahead with expropriation laws providing for ‘nil’ compensation in wide-ranging circumstances, the South African government is ignoring the distilled wisdom of centuries –

South Africa has more than 1.1 million Covid-19 infections and in excess of 31 000 Covid-related deaths. A stricter curfew and many other controls have recently

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