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Three key reforms to kick-start recovery

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There will be no easy recovery from the economic catastrophe the governing African National Congress (ANC) has inflicted on South Africa through destructive policies, maladministration,

The ANC’s manipulative anti-corruption ploy

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The IRR estimates that 41 out of the 80 elected members on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) have been

Paving the way for a land-grab free-for-all

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In a judgment handed down on Tuesday this week, the Cape Town high court issued an interim interdict barring the City of Cape Town from

A poisoned infrastructure programme – or real policy reform?

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Now that an estimated 3 million jobs have been lost and the crippled economy looks set to contract by some 7% in 2020, the government,

New anti-corruption agency to muddy the waters – just like the TRC

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Last week African National Congress (ANC) secretary general Ace Magashule belatedly responded to public outrage over corruption in Covid-19 procurement with a statement acknowledging the

A race-based BEE system helps keep ANC tenderpreneurship alive

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‘A culture of nepotism, favouritism, and abuse’ ‘If, as public servants and political office-bearers we truly care about the public whose interests we claim to

The anti-racism and anti-capitalism behind the current ferment

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Most South Africans have little knowledge of Ibram X Kendi, founder of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, newly appointed holder of

EFF hogwash on land custodianship

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Floyd Shivambu, deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), is at it again. In March 2020 he hailed the Covid-19 pandemic, saying this would

A growing list of ‘off-limit’ topics

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Helen Zille, the Democratic Alliance’s federal council chairperson, has recently been castigated for tweets flagging the failures of the African National Congress’s (ANC) ‘armed struggle’

Rewriting the law for a failed system of BEE

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Earlier this week a full bench of the Pretoria high court upheld the use of race as a criterion in the granting of Covid-19 relief