IRR warns road authority on licence threat
15 March 2021 - The IRR has warned the South African National Road Agency (Sanral) of the consequences of its reported threat to obstruct the vehicle licence renewal of motorists with outstanding e-toll debts.
15 March 2021 - We probably don’t know enough about Meghan Markle’s claim that someone in the House of Windsor fretted about the skin colour of a potential future princeling to say very much, other than that any such anxiety advertises a mental shortfall that’s almost comical.
11 March 2021 - ‘The problem with socialism’, as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher memorably said, ‘is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ The truth of this pithy observation is increasingly being brought home to South Africans – as a clutch of media reports from the past week reveal.
10 March 2021 - On February 15, Discovery Group CEO Adrian Gore wrote a letter to clients explaining “why we don’t just procure vaccines” for them. The first constraint was that “pharmaceutical companies manufacturing the vaccines will currently sell only to national governments, and not to any other entities”.
10 March 2021 - Alexander Forbes’s Isaah Mhlanga argues in his column that concerns about the tax burden falling “unfairly” on a narrow group of people are misplaced (“Lies, damned lies and statistics about taxpayers,” March 4).
8 March 2021 - Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme, said that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. Melting polar ice caps would cause sea levels to rise by three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat-island nations, he warned.
8 March 2021 - The "Fact Check", published on 26 February, plays off the campaign by the DA to mobilise against the Expropriation Bill; it seems, though, to be less geared towards explaining this prospective legislation than justifying it.
6 March 2021 - Patricia de Lille, Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, derides me as a ‘tone-deaf whiner’ and an ‘enemy of land reform’ for pointing out the unconstitutionality and sheer economic folly of the current Expropriation Bill.
5 March 2021 - Weaving a web of supposed connections of which any conspiracy theorist would be proud, Nafeez Ahmed and Rebecca Davis tried to paint anti-lockdown lobby group Panda as part of a shadowy global disinformation campaign.
Mounting tax-boycott threat triggered by graft, rising taxes could bring down the government – IRR
3 March 2021 - In a memorandum delivered to the Presidency this morning, the IRR warns that the government is facing a near inevitable tax and investment boycott if it does not rein in graft and act on policy reforms.
3 March 2021 - In the wake of the budget, it is worth recalling that when the ‘debate’ on expropriation without compensation (EWC) was refreshed in 2017 by the ANC’s Nasrec Conference, then director of the Banking Association of South Africa, Cas Coovadia, warned that a move on property rights would have a direct bearing on the willingness of the financial sector to extend further credit.
2 March 2021 - Trevor Kamoto ends his letter by saying that, once enacted, the Expropriation Bill “will ensure black South Africans, who make up the majority of this country's population, will have access to land, wealth, and ultimately dignity” (“Expropriation Bill offers blacks relief from exclusion”, March 1).
