THREE weeks from Monday is the 100th anniversary of the declaration of war against Germany by the UK. A little more than seven weeks from Monday is the 75th anniversary of the UK’s declaration of war against Germany.
THREE weeks from Monday is the 100th anniversary of the declaration of war against Germany by the UK. A little more than seven weeks from Monday is the 75th anniversary of the UK’s declaration of war against Germany.
Frans Cronje responds to Barney Pityana's article in the Sunday Independent.
This column, a new initiative between Moneyweb and the IRR, has been conceived to provide theories to where South Africa could be headed. It will track the country’s progress monthly against the scenarios set out above and speculate as to which of the four futures is coming into view.
If patent rights are abrogated by the DTI, local innovators will have yet more reason to follow South African-born Mark Shuttleworth and Elon Musk in deciding to live, work – and innovate – abroad.
The crumbling of the Cosatu comes not a moment too soon. In a way this is a pity, because the union movement that gave birth to Cosatu and other unions wrote one of the most inspiring chapters of SA’s history in the apartheid era.
Jasson Urbach warns that a weak patent regime can act as a significant deterrent for innovative companies seeking to invest.
A report released by the IRR this week tracks crime, violence, policing, and justice trends for South Africa on an international, national, and provincial level over the past 20 years. It makes for a sober read about a country whose people confront an extraordinary criminal onslaught.
Perhaps the most interesting — and possibly prescient — comment on Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s recent medium-term budget policy statement was that of the chief whip of the EFF, Floyd Shivambu. He expressed the fear that once nonstrategic state assets had been sold, the government would do the same with strategic ones. This, he said, was why the EFF opposed any form of privatisation.
The SA Institute of Race Relations released a report last week tracking long-term crime trends internationally, nationally and provincially against the policing, private security and justice resources employed by South Africans to fight crime.
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is pressing ahead with controversial proposals to limit intellectual property (IP) rights, including patent rights. This has significant implications for healthcare and other sectors in South Africa.
Neil Emerick says government interference has cost us dearly, with our post-2009 GDP growth averaging just 1.9% a year.
South Africa continues its downward slide on the index of economic freedom compiled by the Fraser Institute in Canada, says the IRR in a policy paper published in its @Liberty bulletin today.
