25 May 2022 - Business Leadership SA (Busa) CEO Busisiwe Mavuso touched on some of the steps the government could take to alleviate the pressure rising inflation is putting on consumers (“Fighting inflation is a pro-poor intervention”, May 22). A further sound policy choice in this regard would be to suspend localisation master plans for the time being, as the likely outcome of these will be increased input costs, making cross-border trade more difficult, and causing higher inflation downstream.
Media
Every week we reach hundreds of thousands of people through placing arguments in the media in support of the principles we stand for. No other advocacy group in the country does as much as we do to promote support for policies that defend your right, and that of your community, to make decisions about your own life free from counter-productive government interference.
25 May 2022 - Centre-stage in South Africa’s governance crisis is the question of the competence and fitness-for-purpose of its civil service – or rather, how the latter is lacking in these qualities. There is no longer any real debate about the severity of the crises that have arisen, daily illustrations of which range from brazen and pervasive corruption, to official indifference to performing its tasks, to the outright collapse of administration across large parts of the country.
24 May 2022 - Rising food prices, and the factors driving this phenomenon, present a great risk for the stability of sub-Saharan African countries. A new report by Oxford Economics Africa details some of the recent, and projected, food price increases across the region. In terms of inflation baskets, food has a heavier weighting in the baskets of African countries; in some cases, these exceed 25%.
24 May 2022 - Despite the unprecedented speed at which Covid19 vaccines were successfully developed, a number of countries, SA among them, remain committed to pushing for the dilution or removal of intellectual property IP rights in the pandemic prevention, preparedness and response instrument at the World Health Organization (WHO).
24 May 2022 - It would be a mistake to see the proposed changes to the ANC’s deployment strategy as a solution to the crises afflicting the state and SA’s public entities. (“ANC mulls opening government roles to opposition party members”, May 20).
23 May 2022 - Even by the standards of the African National Congress (ANC), the 2022 Climate Change Bill is an absurdity.
23 May 2022 - It would be a mistake to see the proposed changes to the ANC’s deployment strategy as a solution to the crises afflicting the state and SA’s public entities. (“ANC mulls opening government roles to opposition party members”, May 20).
20 May 2022 - The scandal over a proposed R22m monumental flag illustrates once more that our governing class keeps itself occupied with vanity projects instead of concentrating on getting basic services and infrastructure working in South Africa.
Most young South Africans are doomed to joblessness – IRR Report
19 May 2022 - A special IRR report on unemployment has established that 56.4% of South Africans aged 24-34 are not in employment, education or training (NEET). Of the 10.4 million in this age range, 5.6 million endure NEET status.
18 May 2022 - For some reason, the woke have a deep dislike of Elon Musk.
17 May 2022 - People don’t join the ANC because they want to serve the people. They join the ANC to get rich. This is the natural outcome of a socialist ideology.
17 May 2022 - "What on earth is going on with the Department of Health [DoH]?" asked 702 radio host Bongani Bingwa earlier this month. This question emanated from an interview Bingwa did with DoH deputy Director General, Nicholas Crisp, and is worth repeating.