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‘Going along to get along’ on BEE helps only the political elite
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Oct 17, 2019
Rather, the mining industry should voluntarily adopt a very different approach to empowerment that seeks not to create a narrow group of black capitalists but
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This is the question we must ask ourselves
- By Michael Morris
- . Oct 16, 2019
When will we cease to be Africans, coloureds, Indians and whites and merely be South Africans? These words are not mine – which, all these
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‘Covering Climate Now’ is propaganda, not journalism
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Oct 14, 2019
A host of media outlets has signed up to promoting a one-sided and simplistic view of a contested, controversial, and complicated issue. It cannot be
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Our looming electricity disaster
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Oct 13, 2019
The campaign for solar and wind seems to be driven by the powerful renewable energy companies and green ideology – and our politicians, ignorant about
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EWC is a perversion of human nature
- By Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
- . Oct 12, 2019
Property is at the heart of free exchange and is the key driver of progress. Each of us needs food, water and shelter to
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For crying out loud
- By Michael Morris
- . Oct 9, 2019
South Africans have a sound grasp of what matters, and what must be done – but our politicians just won’t listen. The real South African
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Stuck in the apartheid poverty ‘groove’
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Oct 8, 2019
An East London plan to move residents of an informal settlement to new housing replicates apartheid planning, and will push poor people even further into
Pull the plug on the SABC
- By David Bullard
- . Oct 6, 2019
The kindest thing would be to shut the SABC down, sell off the assets and better-known radio brands to private investors, and turn its HQ
The DA should concentrate on liberal policy
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Oct 6, 2019
The Democratic Alliance (DA) must return to liberal policies, campaign for them, and explain to everyone why they work so well. The DA is now