John Kane-Berman says the real mistake was to go into the EU in the first place.
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.
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.
