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Liberal failure to win 33% of Parliament

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The parties that oppose race nationalist socialism failed to get one third of the seats in Parliament. This matters more than is commonly known due

Secession movements unmasked

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The 2024 election produced a new balance of forces on the two main axes of secessionism. First, the rise of MK, second, the fall of

What if this is South Africa’s last election?

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In one of his last addresses John Kane Berman, former CEO of the IRR, was asked what the greatest achievement was of the organisation he

BEE and News24: an “utterly irrelevant” debate? 

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BEE is killing South Africa and looming new laws will make matters worse, but the good news is that opposition to BEE is growing, and

Treasury confuses BEE premiums further

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Treasury’s proposed Public Procurement Bill changes the way unreported BEE premiums get paid. Treasury’s submissions to Parliament in favour of the Bill show worse is

Who really holds the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy?

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The week just ended, designated ‘Anti-Racism Week’, was intended to be a special time for ‘national dialogue’ about racism. Whether or not that objective was

Finding the way to ‘value-for-money’ transformation

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The Public Procurement Bill (PPB), which is BEE on steroids covering R1.2 trillion in government spending every year, was debated in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature

No moral way to account for BEE’s anti-poor effects

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The final committee debate on the Public Procurement Bill (PPB) before it was passed by the National Assembly was exceptionally heated. Minister of Finance Enoch

Scrap BEE in procurement – IRR, Zondo, and now Harvard all agree

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The last campaign I ran at the IRR was to scrap BEE at Eskom, particularly in procurement, in order to combat load-shedding. A new working

AGOA, EWC and ‘respecting diverse views’

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Last Saturday, I crafted a Press Release, headlined AGOA: why the silence on grave EWC risk?  It began: ‘The AGOA Forum entered its final day