A troubling glimpse of the future
To understand how a phenomenon will unfold in the future, a good starting point is to look to how it developed in the past, and
Time to terminate present empowerment policies
In 1994, the ANC put a shiny but misleading gloss on its proposed BEE, employment equity, and land reform policies. It said that: BEE would
When will SA wake up?
We keep being told South Africa is a ticking time bomb of pent-up fury, but somnolence might be our greater challenge. Not that we are
A better route to empowerment
On 27 November, investor marketing agency Ince Communications Agency entered into a deal with media entrepreneur Andile Khumalo, significantly transforming its shareholding structure. Ince was
Without growth, there will be nothing left to transform
President Ramaphosa has cracked the whip on the private sector in his latest weekly newsletter, admonishing those in business for not transforming quickly enough. Despite
The great SA property dilemma
One of these days in the not too distant future I am going to have to sell my house and move into somewhere smaller, more
The strange case of the new Eskom CEO
The surprise announcement of Andre de Ruyter as the new CEO of Eskom was soon followed by Eskom’s dismal half-year report. De Ruyter must be
South Africans reject Zimbabwean paradise
When the liberator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, died in September 2019 in a Singaporean hospital, the event was followed by countless tributes from South Africans
Time for BEE to go
It’s rare that a corporate leader in South Africa is willing to rise above the parapets on a touchy issue, and noteworthy when one does.
More ANC propaganda around the NHI
As tomorrow’s 29 November deadline for written submissions on the NHI draws ever closer, so the ANC is stepping up its propaganda in support of