9 November 2021 - Last Sunday was the deadline for public comment on the Companies Amendment Bill of 2021. This Bill was gazetted early in October by Ebrahim Patel, who is both a senior figure in the South African Communist Party (SACP) and South Africa’s minister of trade, industry, and competition.
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8 November 2021 - Three weeks ago this column suggested that rich countries would do a “decarbonisation” deal with South Africa and then pull that deal like a rabbit out of a hat at the COP26 climate conference now winding up in Glasgow.
8 November 2021 - In his recent column my colleague, Michael Morris, set out the thesis of the ANC as a buffalo being brought down not by a lion but by a pack of wild dogs (“Wild dogs have sniffed the ANC’s weaknesses and are rightly closing in”, November 7).
7 November 2021 - Battered South Africans could be forgiven for willing the leaders of the major parties to heed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s avuncular plea to “put aside our differences and work together in a spirit of partnership, co-operation and common purpose”.
7 November 2021 - President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for maturity and for putting the country before party interests is to be welcomed (“Ramaphosa urges leaders to put SA first — while his party haemorrhages”, November 4). The key question is whether his own party is able to do so.
7 November 2021 - er verduideliking van wat die afgelope week in die verkiesing gebeur het, het my kollega John Endres, wat my binnekort as uitvoerende hoof van die Instituut vir Rasseverhoudinge (IRV) sal opvolg, te voorskyn gekom met die storie oor ’n buffel en ’n trop wildehonde.
3 November 2021 - The likely defeat of the ANC in the 2021 poll opens the way to policy reform in South Africa.
31 October 2021 - Nearly 30 years have elapsed since the first big climate change conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. During that time the proportion of global energy derived from fossil fuels has dropped from 87% to 83%, although in quantitative terms there has been an increase in the consumption of such fuels. Some 94% of all global freight by land and sea is moved by diesel engines.
Remember Covid-19 when voting – IRR
29 October 2021 - It behoves all voters to remember the risks – personal and political – associated with Covid-19. Reasons for social distancing, masking, and sanitizing are well known – but the broader context is not.
The principle stands on BLM kneeling – IRR
29 October 2021 - The principle against the Cricket South Africa (CSA) directive that players kneel before the BlackLivesMatter (BLM) call stands firm, whether or not Quinton de Kock is allowed to play for the team against Sri Lanka tomorrow after kneeling. That principle stands on two points.
28 October 2021 - Critics say Quinton de Kock should have just shown solidarity with his team and taken the knee to protest against racism before the start of SA’s match against the West Indies on Tuesday, saying “What’s the big deal?”
IRR warns Cricket South Africa on ideological posturing
26 October 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has written to the Board of Cricket South Africa warning that its reported instruction to all players to kneel before matches in support of the Black Lives Matter movement threatens political and religious freedom and sees cricket authorities dabbling with an ideology they do not understand.