25 February 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) yesterday launched its #YourBudget campaign with a panel discussion between top economists Dawie Roodt and Lumkile Mondi, and leading financial commentator Magnus Heystek on the impact of expropriation without compensation (EWC) on the finances and budgets of ordinary South Africans.
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25 February 2020 - Amendments to the Employment Equity Act will hand powers to the minister of employment and labour to set employment equity targets. This will, the government hopes, remedy the dearth of ‘transformation’ in the private sector.
24 February 2020 - Last week's warning to South Africa by the Trump administration about property rights and the rule of law could not have been more timely.
24 February 2020 - Malaika Mahlatsi writes boldly in "Majority of whites hold same views as De Klerk on apartheid" (SowetanLIVE, 18 February) that "(to) many white South Africans, apartheid was not a crime against humanity" and thus are "resistant to change". Unfortunately, she exposes herself as a peddler of fake news, for her cynical and damaging analysis rests on shocking errors of fact.
24 February 2020 - Only when — but not until — investment pours in, jobs grow and households have money to spend on their future, will the idea of a state committed to inclusive growth be believable to a society that can’t help but remember how bad apartheid really was ... because it is fated to continue carrying the burden.
24 February 2020 - That is not to say there shouldn’t be co-operation between various stakeholders, but there are unlikely to be any compacts between those promoting a command economy and those promoting a market economy.
20 February 2020 - Pompeo’s recommended solutions — “strong rule of law, respect for property rights, regulation that encourages investment” — are no more than common sense. SA’s attitude towards property rights will also have very real implications for its access to the US market.
19 February 2020 - Comments by United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about South Africa’s envisaged adoption of Expropriation without Compensation (EWC) should be taken as yet another warning against the perilous course the government is steering.
16 February 2020 - The ANC is the party wanting the change to remove the decision from the courts. Those opposing the ANC on this issue want the decision-making to stay where it is. Once again, Mr Landman gets his arguments back to front.
15 February 2020 - Perhaps the greatest irony is that – again, in theory – South Africa is committed to evidence-based policy. What passes into law must be proofed and tested for its efficacy, not merely its appeal. On one of the largest, potentially most destabilising, endeavours of recent history, the government is to all intents and purposes refusing to do so. There is no fearmongering in this. And it is a great injustice.
14 February 2020 - There is a growing mood of unease and confusion in South Africa, and not for the first time. Not for the first time either, this is about Expropriation without Compensation – the notion that the government intends to accord itself the power to confiscate private property. What’s different this time is that, for a great many people, this is less a generalised concern about what the policy will mean for South Africa as a whole, and more about what the policy will mean for each of them personally.
13 February 2020 - In a recent Investment Research Note put out by Nedbank Private Wealth, political analyst JP Landman claims to be ‘cutting through the noise’ surrounding the draft constitutional amendment bill introducing expropriation without compensation (EWC). However, his analysis is fundamentally flawed.