19 January 2018 - The current policy of the government is not to give ownership of land to black farmers, but rather for the State to own all redistributed land and to force black farmers to lease it.
19 January 2018 - The current policy of the government is not to give ownership of land to black farmers, but rather for the State to own all redistributed land and to force black farmers to lease it.
Mngxitama is a master at following racism with even more racism, which he proved with his follow-up: “I concur with @helenzille that the aroma of the burning flesh from the furnaces of the holocaust may wet [sic] the appetite of the S.A. cannibals.”
With all the excitement in oil markets, it’s easy to forget about other primary industries, like the mining industry that plays such a crucial role in the economy of South Africa. In this piece, Dr Anthea Jeffery of the IRR talks us through the latest policy developments in the mining sector, and how they have the potential to negatively affect the already-struggling industry. It’s sobering to think how quickly bad policy can eviscerate such a long-lived sector.
To stimulate economic growth, the ANC needs to protect property rights, promote employment, and lighten the BEE burden. Instead, the Department of Mineral Resources continues to threaten mining titles under proposed mining legislation and the draft mining charter
The ANC is now basking in widespread public approval for having thus faced the EFF down. Behind the scenes, however, it is still seeking to find ways to take land and other property without paying compensation and (supposedly) without breaching the Constitution.
South Africa currently generates close on 110 million tonnes of waste a year. Most of it ends up in landfills and very little of it is recycled. If this could be changed, it would help unlock the significant wealth to be found in waste. It would also generate jobs and many new waste management businesses.
Die #RhodesMustFall-beweging gaan nie oor ’n standbeeld nie. Inteendeel. Die kommentaar van talle ondersteuners wys dit is eerder ’n poging om Westerse invloede van Suid-Afrikaanse universiteite te verwyder.
One reason why financial corruption under African National Congress (ANC) rule has become systemic is that it was not strangled at birth. And we won't stop it by deploying the red herring that current problems are merely hangovers from the apartheid past, as some commentators do.
Ferial Haffejee, editor of HuffPost SA, was at the BFLF conference where Malikane spoke. As she reports, his calls for nationalisation were enthusiastically applauded by those present. Yet the audience, as Haffejee writes, was not made up of ‘landless peasants’ or the ‘urban working poor’. Rather, it comprised ‘professionals, business owners, students, intellectuals and activists’, most of them well-dressed and seemingly well-heeled.
23 January 2018 - A dynamic South Africa's hopes must ultimately depend on its own choices and its willingness to make them.
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.
Every year our analysts and policy experts, in promoting new ideas and policies, contribute a wide range of articles to newspapers across South Africa.
Black policemen were particular targets of attack. "Necklace" executions of supposed collaborators, which some influential ANC leaders endorsed, claimed more than 500 lives.
The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) says it is seeking to ‘re-imagine the mining industry’ via the draft reviewed mining charter it unexpectedly unveiled in April 2016.
Recorded in its Monetary Policy Review published earlier this month, the statement amounts to a damning indictment of the management of the economy by the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The economy is "stagnant" despite "strong" global growth and easy financing options. Domestic growth has stalled because of "political and policy uncertainty" which has "depressed confidence". As a result, "investment is contracting" and potential growth is "very low".
The Expropriation Bill of 2015 does not bode well for some Johannesburg suburbs such as Orange Grove.
In his fortnightly article in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that the "baffling" decisions made by the ANC of late are part of a larger plan outlined in the National Democratic Revolution (NDR).
John Kane-Berman explains why bargaining councils are bad for South Africa.
In a speech last month the deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa, said the government was ‘obsessed with empowering black South Africans’ and was sometimes ‘fanatical’ about it. It now planned to ‘intensify’ black economic empowerment (BEE), for it was ‘hell-bent on ensuring that blacks owned and managed the economy’. Added Mr Ramaphosa: ‘Those who don’t like this idea – tough for you. That is how we are proceeding.’
John Kane-Berman says govt's racial laws are pushing minorities into starting up their own businesses.
