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In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that it is not only the media that is at risk from the ruling party.

In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that racial fronting in companies is likely to continue despite the Government's efforts to stop it.

In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that stopping racial fronting in companies is likely to be futile, just as it was when it occurred during apartheid.

The CEO of the South African Institute of Race Relations, John Kane-Berman, has spoken out in defence of efforts by the Congress of South African Trade Unions to promote the role of civil society organizations in the country. COSATU came in for considerable criticism from both the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) after inviting a group of civil society organizations to a meeting in Boksburg in October. Kane-Berman has described the criticism directed at COSATU as “Stalinism straight and simple”.

As international and local media agencies have reported a British national and his wife were attacked in the township of Gugulethu on the urban periphery of Cape Town while honeymooning in the city. The couple were kidnapped by armed robbers and the wife was later found murdered. In response to media coverage the South African Police Force has released a statement expressing shock at the murder.

John Kane-Berman argues that very few believe in the Government's latest promise to create five million new jobs in the next ten years.

The Cabinet has announced that as part of its ‘new growth path’ the Government will aim to create 5 million new jobs in the ten years to 2020 or 500 000 jobs a year.

In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argues that the green paper on land reform drafted by the Department of Rural Development on Land Reform only gives a small inkling on what is truly in store due to the lack of reference to black economic empowerment (BEE).

In his fortnightly column in Business Day, John Kane-Berman argued that the South African Government has scored two own goals in its administration of the coutry. These blunders by the ANC have made even Sweden, a generous donor to the ANC during its struggle for power, voice disappointment in the ruling party.

This week the South African Institute of Race Relations argued that claims that the press ombudsman is ineffective and/or biased against the African National Congress (ANC) and the Government are groundless.

This morning the Institute’s Unit for Risk Analysis warned the Government that it was undermining investor sentiment on South Africa

This morning the South African Institute of Race Relations released a statement on the arrest of Mzilikazi wa Afrika.