9 September 2020 - At a time of great hardship for millions of people, this week the EFF found itself unable to place South Africans above petty political theatre.
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9 September 2020 - Rural and farm safety came to the fore in Saturday’s mass demonstration of farmers and sympathetic South Africans in Newcastle in the wake of the murders of Glen and Vida Rafferty. Concerns about farm murders were echoed by participants in the Move One Million events across the country and abroad.
CSA rejection of racial discrimination welcomed – IRR
8 September 2020 - The IRR welcomes the unambiguous statement by Cricket South Africa (CSA) that racial discrimination in the hiring of consultants is not and will not be official CSA policy.
The EFF's tone-deaf rampage – IRR
8 September 2020 - At a time of great hardship for millions of people, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) yesterday found themselves unable to place South Africans above petty political theatre.
7 September 2020 - How about that? Several media outlets are outraged at the announcement last month by Facebook that it will remove “dangerous” material put up by “anarchist groups that support violent acts amidst protests”. Previously it had removed material put up by right-wing groups, but now media outlets which supported that ban are denouncing Mark Zuckerberg for the “false equivalence” of equating anti-fa “violence” with rightist violence.
7 September 2020 - At Newcastle in northern KwaZulu-Natal, the first Saturday of spring was a time of mourning and protest rather than celebration yesterday.
6 September 2020 - With the first spell of sunshine in days last Thursday, it was time to do the laundry in Constantia, the jerseys and trousers slung like hides over a stretch of fencing alongside the freeway, and a traffic sign brought into service to air a blanket too large to drape elsewhere.
6 September 2020 - Moeletsi Mbeki recently argued that black economic empowerment (BEE) was not a creation of the ANC, but an initiative from business to protect its interests post-transition.
5 September 2020 - The announcement that Cricket South Africa (CSA) will from now on appoint only black consultants in order to facilitate transformation sets the sport on a dangerous path and must be resisted.
4 September 2020 - The IRR estimates that 41 out of the 80 elected members on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) have been implicated in serious incidents of corruption. Eight NEC members have not been implicated at all, while it is difficult to make an assessment of the remainder. Contrary to public perception, the 41 who have been linked to corruption are split between the Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa camps, not confined to the former.
3 September 2020 - The recent Cape Town high court judgment barring the City of Cape Town from evicting illegal land occupiers from their shacks — occupied or not — without first obtaining a court order risks encouraging land invasions and deepening instability.
2 September 2020 - Correct as he is about the growing chorus of condemnation of black economic empowerment (BEE), a more biting critique of the policy than Andile Ntingi’s contribution is hard to imagine (“BEE fattens the elite and leaves crumbs for the poor masses”, August 30).