The trouble is that it rang hollow following the official statement which spells out that the leader personally found Zille’s comments offensive and it was precisely because it was painful that the discussion had to be closed. As a result it is not clear which discussion should continue.
Paul Pereira says the party's efforts to mirror the ANC are potential ruinous for itself and SA.
Some in the media still describe the DA as “white” or “perceived as white”. The narrative didn’t change after most of the Coloured community in the Cape jettisoned the ANC for the DA. The Indian community nationally joined them. What the criticism means is that “black” really just means “African”.
Anthea Jeffery says the opposition needs to revisit its support for damaging B-BBEE legislation, not just the EE Amendment Bill
The most chilling threat was the statement that it was ‘“mobilising” its members, who would be “combat ready”
Sara Gon replies to Phillip Dexter's argument that only whites can be racist.
It takes so little to unmask Mmusi Maimane’s new policy framework as a poorly thought-through imitation of that of the ANC that the DA must be quite confident that President Zuma’s camp will win the ANC’s end-of-year leadership race
The definition of "hate speech" goes so far beyond what most people would regard as "hate speech" that it recalls the definition of "terrorist activities" in the Terrorism Act of 1967. That act defined those activities so widely that they included "embarrassing the administration of the affairs of the state", causing "substantial finan
John Kane-Berman says new and Kafkaesque BEE regulations are going to frighten off desperately needed FDI.
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 Charter was adopted as the Congress’s official programme. “Thus the Freedom Charter became the common programme enshrining the hopes and aspirations of all the progressive people of South Africa.”
"Reckless and populist ministers armed with confusing legislation and increasing arbitrary powers to enforce daft demands backed by draconian penalties are as big a threat to mining as everything else put together", says the Institute's CEO, John Kane-Berman.
On this projection, public debt will soon have quintupled from the R627bn at which it stood in 2008/9, before the start of the Zuma presidency.
Built on a large piece of rolling Highveld grassland which Tladi's father-in-law bought in 1905 in this suburb north of Johannesburg, near what is now called Ferndale, the house was expropriated and the family forcibly removed to Soweto in 1956.
11 January 2018 - In our contemporary setting, curbing rights to property will more likely deepen rather than alleviate poverty.
Mark Oppenheimer and Cecelia Kok analyse draft law's erosion of property rights in context of the ConCourt's AgriSA judgment.
Sara Gon says the term has become a method of attack and insult in contemporary SA politics.
John Kane-Berman says SA would be better off if those parts of the Plan that have been implemented had not been.
South Africa has a moral obligation to address the wrongs of the past, but a race-based policy of affirmative action is an unjust and ineffective way of trying to achieve redress.
Following the white paper, the department has already invited nominations for seven new committees to help implement NHI. These will deal with tertiary services, training and development, pricing, benefits, the consolidation of financing, and technology. There will also be a national health commission.
