Black policemen were particular targets of attack. "Necklace" executions of supposed collaborators, which some influential ANC leaders endorsed, claimed more than 500 lives.
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.
Phumlani M. UMajozi responds to the Star columnist’s nonsensical attack on the DA Mayoral Candidate for Joburg.
John Kane-Berman on the ANC govt's plans to legislate against this supposed problem.
“Taxation without representation is tyranny” is the famous cri de coeur uttered in about 1761 presaging the American War of Independence.
John Kane-Berman says Parks Tau's initiative was misconceived from the get go.
LAST year, the Institute of Race Relations commissioned a national survey of public attitudes to race and other policy issues.
Pupils at a public high school in a West Rand township visited two weeks ago were inspected by a "patroller" as they entered through the school gates. The headmistress explained that this was to ensure that they did not wear "branded clothing" instead of the school uniform, which included ties on boys. Pupils who wore such clothing tended to show off, which she did not think appropriate when 40% of all the pupils lived in shacks. These "show-offs" also tended to be more rebellious.
Few books have yet been written about the ‘people’s war’ waged by the African National Congress (ANC) from 1984 to 1994. Nick Howarth’s book, War in Peace, helps remedy that defect.
South Africa’s mining industry remains in the doldrums, having recorded an overall loss of R37-billion in 2015. The persistent malaise in mining stems partly from depressed commodity prices, juxtaposed against rising input costs. But bad mining policy also bears much of the blame.
If anyone needed more evidence that quitting the European Union (EU) was the right decision for the United Kingdom (UK), the German chancellor and her finance minister recently provided it.
Nigeria and South Africa, it is clear, must embark on devising strategies to slay their behemoths of intolerance with more urgency. Both countries need to come up with more effective policies to address these challenges. Denial and blame-shifting will only deepen the problems arising from intolerance, rather than fix them.
Thousands of cases of fraud, theft, and other crimes need to be investigated, many hundreds of people prosecuted, and plenty imprisoned. Having themselves been captured, neither the so-called "Hawks" nor the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) can be trusted to do the jo
22 February 2018 - It is worrying that the medium-term expectation is for South Africa to continue underperforming regional and emerging market growth averages by around 50%. The current growth projections will put paid to the prospect of a medium-term employment uptick.
