By changing the methods that firms use to advise their clients, one of the obstacles to investor success can be largely overcome.
MEMBERS of Parliament sitting on its justice committee were recently reported to have been "visibly shocked" at evidence of corruption and incompetence.
Water and electricity is being rationed. The shortage of medical supplies is so high that the United Nations has been asked for assistance. Thirty percent of children are malnourished. In 2016, the average citizen lost nearly 9 kilograms in weight.
Ek het twee weke gelede geskryf oor Lizzie van Zyl, die Boeredogtertjie wat in Mei 1901 in ’n Bloemfonteinse konsentrasiekamp aan verhongering gesterf het op die ouderdom van sewe jaar.
Numerous types of chickens are coming home to roost in South Africa. During their long campaign to win power by making the country ungovernable via a no-holds-barred "people’s war", the ruling alliance made up of the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), injected into the bloodstream of the body politic a virus of violence that they cannot now eradicate.
BEE is thus deterring direct investment and promoting capital flight. It is a key part of the reason economic growth has been negative in per capita terms for the past three years. In addition, far from empowering the disadvantaged, BEE helps only a small elite. This has once again been confirmed by a comprehensive opinion poll commissioned by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and carried out in September 2016
Pres. Jacob Zuma het onlangs, onder politieke druk en om aandag aan die polisiemoorde te gee, voorgestel dat Suid-Afrika “ontwapen” word.
The 1994 transition liberated black South Africans from oppression, but also liberated whites, writes Frans Cronje.
’n Gewilde storie in ons land is dat die koloniale bewind die begin van vele van Suid-Afrika se probleme was. Pres. Jacob Zuma het onlangs aan die raad van tradisionele leiers gesê kolonialisme “is die “bron van die armoede en ongelykheid wat die skandelike kenmerk van ons nasie geword het en ’n struikelblok vorm vir ’n toekoms van gedeelde voorspoed”.
GROWTH in demand for all sorts of household and even luxury goods and services testifies to the rise of SA’s black middle class.
A week is a long time in politics. In South Africa a day is a long time in politics, but an issue has been bubbling under and now is swirling about our ears. It is a phenomenon over which the government has no control: the worst drought in over 30 years.
Many years ago South African Airways used to run an advertisement which stated, "We didn't invent flying, we just perfected it". A family in Saxonworld would be entitled to make a similar claim today: "We didn't invent state capture, we just perfected it."
Head of the Institute of Race Relations takes issue with a claim published by the RDM.
Frans Cronje outlines what he believes to be the solution to our crisis.
John Kane-Berman, the CEO of the Institute, says that unions such as Cosatu and Sadtu "are fond of posturing as revolutionaries. But when it comes to opening up opportunities to the black jobless, they are the most reactionary force on the block."
16 February 2018 - At the time, the reformist view – which we likened to the experience of the verligte Afrikaners – was broadly rubbished as being outside the bounds of possibility. While the scenario we have subsequently lived through was certainly not the upside one – we continued to hold out the possibility of an ANC reformation, forced by political and economic realities, in two books published on South Africa's future, the first in 2014 and the second in 2017.
A related point is that government expenditure as a proportion of GDP has increased from 26.4% in 1994/95 to a projected 33% in 2017/18. By international standards this is a very high level. Our data on the subject extends back to the 1960s and the current level is the highest on record.
The weasel clause that was taken out of an earlier version of the Promotion of Investment Bill of 2015 (the Investment Bill) has effectively reappeared in the latest version of the Expropriation Bill of 2015 (the Expropriation Bill).
