9 March 2020 - As if nuclear power in South Africa did not have enough problems with its enemies, it has now acquired the worst possible friend: Julius Malema.
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9 March 2020 - Even as the economy slips into its third recession since 1994 and registering growth of just 0.2% (in real terms) in 2019, the government persists with measures guaranteed to worsen our prospects by deterring investment, robbing confidence and spurring joblessness.
6 March 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) yesterday sent a letter to Dr Mathole Motshekga, chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Amending Section 25 of the Constitution, urgently requesting the postponement of all public hearings relating to the parliamentary process of expropriation without compensation (EWC) in view of the risk of such hearings promoting the spread of COVID-19, also known as the Coronavirus.
5 March 2020 - This misplaced myopia seems the only reason why – in all the in-depth analysis of last week’s budget and the country’s current technical recession – the NDR has rarely merited even a passing mention.
5 March 2020 - The latest report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) – South Africa’s Minibus Taxi Industry, Resistance to Formalisation and Innovation – assesses the potential for innovation and modernisation in this vital transport sector.
5 March 2020 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will deliver open letters to Standard Bank in Johannesburg today at 11am and on Friday to the offices of Old Mutual at 11am. These letters will be in relation to their positions on the expropriation of property without compensation (EWC). The letters to be delivered are a hard copy of the open letters sent to both companies in early February 2020, to which the IRR received no reply.
4 March 2020 - At the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), the view is that four necessary reforms must be introduced. The first is a complete repeal of all race-based equity and empowerment policies. These should be replaced with the new socioeconomically based empowerment policy developed by my colleagues, called economic empowerment for the disadvantaged (EED).
4 March 2020 - Government and the unions are heading into a battle royale over the bloated public sector wage bill. The trade union federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) has said it is “battle ready” and willing to “collapse” public services if government fails to adhere to the present wage deal.
3 March 2020 - Shortly before his resignation, former Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba spoke very dismissively of a resident complaining about grass verges not being cut. Mr Mashaba’s implication was that a whiny, narrow-minded, white busybody was complaining about a trifle when much more serious matters had to be dealt with. It was racial, populist politicking.
2 March 2020 - Ms Helen Clark and her colleagues on the Lancet commission seem utterly oblivious of the irony of their standpoint. On the one hand they express concern for the mental well-being of children. On the other they themselves are busy "intimidating" those same children with threats that they supposedly face – among them a question-mark over their very future – thanks to the never-ending cascade of warnings of imminent apocalypse based on a dubious hypothesis and predictions derived from flawed climate "modelling".
2 March 2020 - Reducing crime is a matter of dealing with the many socio-political and economic issues the government is not dealing with, not least the pressing need for an environment of job growth and investor confidence whose absence is guaranteed by the government's determination to undermine property rights.
27 February 2020 - One may debate the process to achieve it, but without firm movement towards real property rights in “traditional” areas, the investment needed for their development will not materialise. Then we can bank on the “state of the economy” occupying us for a long time to come.