Frans Cronje says farmers need to play a much more decisive role in setting the terms of reference for the debate around land and agriculture.
Frans Cronje says farmers need to play a much more decisive role in setting the terms of reference for the debate around land and agriculture.
THE Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has presented a new national economic recovery and growth strategy to political and government leaders.
In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that the proposed new labour laws will harm, not help, the unemployment situation in the country.
The National Treasury wants to introduce a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs), which it claims will provide the most ‘cost-effective’ way to counter obesity
The public responses (and social media comments suggests that they are widespread) by some black people to the recent racist actions of the likes of André Slade and other like-minded people are both irrational and baffling.
Labour minister Mildred Oliphant is itching to have companies fined R1.5m or 2% of turnover (whichever is the higher amount) for allegedly failing to meet their racial quotas under the amended Employment Equity Act (the EE Act) of 1998.
Aside from a universal basic income, a sound way to safeguard a basic level of income for the greatest number of people is to ensure they can be productive participants in the economy by ensuring access to quality education to a minimum level of completion
He is not the first person to have put forward this idea, although the rapturous reception that greeted his book when it was published in English in 2014 has given it a whole new lease of life.
Who are the culprits?
The African National Congress (ANC) seems determined to cling to race-based affirmative action and black economic empowerment (BEE) policies, and is steadily ratcheting up their requirements. But these interventions help only a relatively small black elite, rather than the great majority of poor South Africans.
John Kane-Berman says that if those trying to rekindle race-antagonism succeed, South Africa will pay a terrible price.
In the first of a series Sara Gon writes on the concept of demographic representivity.
The real threat to Mandela's legacy, John Kane-Berman argues, is not disintegrating racial harmony in South Africa but current economic policies that could damage growth.
DA: This is still being designed and determined, so it would be premature to discuss details before they are adopted by the party’s executive. The overall objective is that we want all DA structures to be intentional about recruiting and mentoring excellent black activists, whom will feed through into the talent pool for the DA’s candidate select
This policy was adopted before the ANC came to power, and has been implemented incrementally since 1994 via a series of racial preferencing laws. Proposed amendments to the mining charter to increase black ownership from 26% to 30% are just the next step. So are all the latest land reform-proposals.
Cyril Ramaphosa's call in his recent speech in Port Elizabeth for the appointment of a judicial commission of enquiry into allegations of state capture is a neat little blow against Jacob Zuma. But it is also a way of kicking the issue into touch.
19 February 2018 - One of those who made it clear last week that the African National Congress (ANC) was ready to vote with opposition parties against Mr Zuma was the finance minister, Malusi Gigaba. Since Mr Gigaba was one of Mr Zuma's chief instruments of state capture when he was minister of public enterprises between 2010 and 2014, this no doubt prompted Mr Zuma to mutter "Et tu, Brute?" as Mr Gigaba thrust in the knife.
10 January 2018 - Advocating land grabs without compensation distracts from the real issue: farming is hard, risky and uncertain work.
6 December 2017 - Mr Maimane went on to suggest that the most important difference between the DA and the African National Congress (ANC) was that the DA “will be able to actually implement these policies”. He has got this exactly back to front. In the event that he becomes the next leader of the ANC, Mr Ramaphosa is far more likely to be able to implement growth (and other) policies than the DA. This is for the simple reason that an ANC led by Mr Ramaphosa is much more likely to win the 2019 national election than is the DA.
