5 June 2019 - The damage inflicted by EWC will not be limited to farms and agriculture. The ratings agencies and the IMF are, in this sense, merely adding their voices to what others have warned against, highlighting the specifics of the inevitable fallout if the current determination is maintained. President Ramaphosa is in the presidential office, and has his mandate. He should also have heard the warnings. He must now make his choices.
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5 June 2019 - Uniting this middle ground of moderate South Africans is the IRR’s key objective in intensifying its efforts to focus policy-makers’ attention on measures most likely to produce positive results for the country.
5 June 2019 - There is so much pathetic fragility out there. So much ignorance. So much mono-dimensional, binary and puerile thinking. It makes sense that we cannot insult with any flair or sophistication. We cannot argue with meaning or conviction either.
5 June 2019 - Of course, the new employment and labour minister will fail in creating a climate conducive to job creation “Nxesi ‘No Silver Bullet for Jobs” (June 3). He is a communist and trade unionist who harbours great ideological hostility towards the private sector and the idea of a private sector-led and market-driven economy.
4 June 2019 - The likelihood is rather that the Cabinet announced last week will shepherd South Africa into a recession amidst significant job losses and declining standards of living.
4 June 2019 - GDP data released by Statistics South Africa today shows year-on-year growth at 0% and quarter-on-quarter at -3.2%. This suggests that South Africa is headed for recession in 2019.
4 June 2019 - Like the NP and UP before it, a failure to provide an alternative, which is clear in the minds of voters, will see the party’s electoral decline continue. The party must be clear on what it stands for and what makes it different from the ANC. If it does not do this, the DA will repeat the fatal mistake, and join the UP and NP in the dustbin of South African political history.
3 June 2019 - Mr Ramaphosa claims a mandate for growth, which he then proceeds to betray by appointing ministers unlikely to implement that mandate. The reasons are plain. Implementation would mean abandoning the fallacies and fantasies of the "developmental-state" mindset in favour of policies less hostile to the dynamics of the capitalist system.
3 June 2019 - What’s needed is to scrap the failed policy and replace it with one that promotes private sector growth — the only meaningful source of jobs — and focuses directly on disadvantage rather than race through measures designed to “reach down to the grassroots”, as Jeffery argues, “by equipping the poor with the sound schooling, housing, and healthcare they need to help them get ahead”.
2 June 2019 - Ons gaan u hulp nodig hê om organisasies en maatskappye uit te wys wat rassediskriminasie en –verdeling bevorder sodat ons druk op hulle kan uitoefen om rasgegronde beleid te staak.
2 June 2019 - Die Noordwes Hoër Hof het nog ’n verregaande beslissing gelewer. Verlede jaar het regter Ronnie Hendricks vir Pieter Doorewaard en Philip Schutte skuldig bevind aan die dood van Matlhomola Moshoeu deur hom van ’n bakkie af te gooi vir die steel van sonneblomme. Nou is hul appèl teen die uitspraak geweier.
1 June 2019 - Under this cabinet the worst excesses of the Zuma years will not be repeated, but expect economic growth to continue to stagnate, with unemployment and poverty grinding on.