John Kane-Berman says the health minister's NHI white paper has little grasp of reality.
John Kane-Berman says the health minister's NHI white paper has little grasp of reality.
8 May 2018 - If the government really wanted to establish black commercial farmers, this is what it would do. My colleagues who deal with agriculture and land reform have done some sums around livestock farming.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman responds to Gwede Mantashe's comments on the SAIRR following Mr Kane-Berman's speech 'Revealing the Master Plan: What the ANC has in store for South Africa' in Cape Town last week.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman, CEO of the Institute, talks about the living conditions of miners.
29 April 2018 - Mr Lamberti, who is stepping down from his position as chief executive of the group, was found by the Gauteng Local Division of the High Court to have impaired the dignity of Adila Chowan, a chartered accountant who was dismissed after complaining that Mr Lamberti had reneged on a promise to appoint her as a chief financial officer within the group.
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”.
The Institute's CEO, John Kane-Berman, cautions that the Media and the non-profit sector will have to up their vigilance if they are to secure their future in South Africa.
Intieme vroueslag is nou die grootste oorsaak van moord op vroue in Suid-Afrika.
Greek mathematician Archimedes has variably been quoted as having said: “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
In an open letter to the mining minister earlier this month, the ANC Youth League revived its earlier demands for mine nationalisation, saying there had long been a ‘strategic need for the nationalisation of the mines’.
The government claims this will help increase prosperity, but international experience with state mining companies elsewhere shows the opposite. So too does the degree of incompetence, malfeasance, and corruption already evident at many of South Africa’s most important state-owned enterprises (SOEs), including Petro SA, Eskom, Transnet, Prasa, Denel, and SAA.
NO DOUBT it was unintentional, but the parliamentary portfolio committee on labour could not have picked a better time than right now for its hearings on a national minimum wage.
The chamber says it will challenge the charter in court. It has also called on the African National Congress (ANC) to intervene. The problem is that the mining industry was co-opted a long time ago. It did so when it bought into the ANC's racial "transformation" process by adopting the first mining charter back in 2004.
The Charter cannot be implemented — but is worth examining for its attempt to keep black South Africans perpetually dependent
The prioritisation of the ownership issue sidelines all the other empowerment channels that could make an impact
13 February 2018 - South Africa's bleak employment outlook underscores the pressing need for the country to revisit its policy on mining with a view to generating investment-led growth in one of the few sectors of the economy with the potential to absorb large numbers of unskilled labour.
Yet the minister failed to soothe investor concerns reflecting the government’s broader inability to stage a growth recovery.
Ways we can bring our mining sector back on track.
Anthea Jeffery explains how we can make the most of our mineral wealth.
There has, quite appropriately, been much wailing and gnashing of teeth over South Africa's lamentable performance in the Fraser Institute's survey of the enabling environment for mining investment. In terms of one of the Institute's two indices – ‘policy perceptions’ – South Africa is the third worst performer on the African continent.
