Apartheid is besig om van anderkant die graf af terug te keer en kan nog daarin slaag om sy oorspronklike doel te verwesenlik.
Apartheid is besig om van anderkant die graf af terug te keer en kan nog daarin slaag om sy oorspronklike doel te verwesenlik.
Frans Cronjé's interview with Mmusi Maimane in Rapport. This is an English translation.
The South African Treasury says that its proposed excise tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is intended to lower sugar consumption and obesity rates. It has not shown any intention to offset the revenue that will be generated from the SSB tax by lowering or eliminating other consumer taxes. If the excise is not in fact
In its endeavours to deploy Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services in previously disadvantaged areas, the African National Congress (ANC) government introduced the Under-Serviced Area License (USAL).
Public comments close today on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. It’s a bill that’s surface intentions are to counter the increased racial incidents last year. But when one digs a little deeper, the source of it points elsewhere. Anthea Jeffery is a constant thorn in government’s side, questioning all policy decisions with a sharp blade. In her latest installment Jeffery unpacks the Hate bill, and is concerned the underlying reasons for it may be detrimental to South Africa. Jeffery believes the Bill is unconstitutional and unnecessary – and should be withdrawn and replaced by a very different approach.
In recently published memoirs, one of Cyril Ramaphosa's main opponents pays generous tribute to his character and negotiating skills during the talks leading up to the new South African constitution and the election in 1994.
John Kane-Berman says the Zuma govt has a long record of fobbing off these bodies with empty promises
It is becoming popular to write the ANC off and say that it cannot reform to save itself. Examples of corruption and “state capture” dominate the headlines.
Neil Emerick says government interference has cost us dearly, with our post-2009 GDP growth averaging just 1.9% a year.
Frans Cronje's address to the Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, United States of America, April 29 2015.
Various journalists have worked themselves up into a lather about the supposed arrival of a "post-fact" or "post-fact" era heralded by the British decision to quit the European Union and the election of Donald Trump to the American presidency
The point of the exercise is that slight changes in variables have such a rollercoaster effect on the result that only a gambler would allow a straight race to occur at year-end. Consider also that even if you were certain of the winner the very closeness of the contest will exacerbate internal divisions and perhaps cause enough internal damage to leave the winning faction presiding over a spent and fatally wounded organisation.
John Kane-Berman says the party's electoral setback is even more profound than the numbers suggest.
Frans Cronje says Zuma leadership has wasted no time in seeking to change South Africa’s policy trajectory.
John Kane-Berman says the ANC needs to reflect over whether it is making the same mistake with Zuma, that it did with Mbeki.
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has long known that among the large numbers of failing public schools are some success stories. The best known are suburban schools. But we were convinced that there were success stories among poor township schools too.
John Kane-Berman says the real mistake was to go into the EU in the first place.
20 April 2018 - Parts 1 and 2 in August and September 2017 respectively looked at the campaign for the University of Cape Town (UCT) to boycott Israeli universities and the likely consequences for UCT if it succeeded (see here).
Israel Academic Boycott is a program of the UCT Palestinian Solidarity Forum (UCT-PSF) of which Nash and Ally are organisers. The UCT-PSF was founded in 2010 and has promoted an academic boycott of Israeli academia on and off since then.
16 April 2018 - The DA's explicit rejection at its recent federal congress in Pretoria of racial quotas is something liberals should applaud. Less deserving of applause is the resolution the congress adopted to introduce a "jobseekers' exemption certificate" should the DA ever come to power.
