GROWTH in demand for all sorts of household and even luxury goods and services testifies to the rise of SA’s black middle class.
GROWTH in demand for all sorts of household and even luxury goods and services testifies to the rise of SA’s black middle class.
Net foreign direct investment (FDI) into South Africa was negative in 2014, with outward flows exceeding inward ones by some R13bn. Moreover, as Business Day reports, in the first quarter of 2015. “inward FDI recorded a negative R22bn… as foreign direct investors in South Africa pulled money out”.
Sara Gon questions the wisdom of the Gauteng MEC's "paperless classroom" programme.
The Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) has called for a boycott of Black Like Me products for “pushing back the gains made by the workers in attempting to secure the bargaining rights in the workplaces”.
Has the Treasury been captured by the black business lobby? Has it bowed before the powerful wind of racial nationalism sweeping through the ruling party and its communist and trade union allies?
The real challenge is to open up real opportunities for all disadvantaged black South Africans, says Anthea Jeffery.
Frans Cronje says that website is getting it badly wrong in its assessment of socio-economic data.
IRR Policy Fellow Sara Gon critiques the widespread view that President Jacob Zuma is right to believe the court is biased against Africa.
Under draft regulations published last week, the National Treasury is proposing that government tenders up to R10m will in future be evaluated only 50% on price, while the preferential weighting for black economic empowerment (BEE) will also count 50%. This increased BEE weighting will encourage still more inflated prices from BEE “tenderpreneurs” – and yet more firmly subordinate the interests of the poor to the interests of a small elite.
Magsbalanse, en nie rekonsiliasie nie, is nou die beste manier om ’n stabiele en voorspoedige toekoms vir ons land te verseker. Dit is frustrerend om te sien hoe sleg die privaat sektor, kommersiële boere, die middelklas en groot korporasies vaar met die versekering van ’n toekoms vir hulself in Suid-Afrika.
Narrow road: Frans Cronjé on the possibility of the party turning to the economic right.
DESPITE the fact that South African labour law makes it easy for trade union officials to call workers out on strike, and that strikes enjoy legal protection, more than half of the strikes that occur in the country are "unprotected".
