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Amidst the despondency, is there some hope?

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There is an intense and growing national anxiety about the country’s future. Economic hardship is increasing for most South Africans. Unemployment is persistently high, food

Racial quotas in hiring: another own goal

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Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa declared his fifth annual SA investment conference a great success. And last week the President also signed into law the Employment

SA leaving Zimbabweans in the lurch

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About 180 000 Zimbabweans and their dependants, who could number as many as a million, will face deportation from South Africa at the end of

DA’s Moonshot Pact for power and the need to avoid bad coalitions

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Party congresses are about putting on a show for the next election and are full of big talk. But the Democratic Alliance (DA) has for

What sort of banking crisis could SA have?

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In certain ways all banking crises are the same. There is a run on the bank as depositors rush to withdraw their cash and big

Keeping the EFF under pressure

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The national shutdown called for by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Monday did not bring the country to a standstill. In the end it

The Big Business – Government Stand-off

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Big business bosses have come down hard on the government for its lethargy in responding to the multiple crises we face. The message could not

South Africa’s growing isolation

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South Africa is drifting into growing isolation from its trading partners and much of the international community. The consequences will be pressures on economic growth,

Will a back-door privatisation of Eskom really go ahead?

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Allowing Eskom to concession its fleet of coal-fired power stations to private contractors would have been politically impossible just a few years ago. With the

“Believe in the Future, Step by Step”

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Shoichiro Toyoda, one of Japan’s foremost post-war industrialists, who was President of Toyota from 1982 to 1992 and helped the company become the world’s largest