5 November 2019 - If there is a more uncomfortable spot in the cabinet than the finance portfolio, it doesn’t come easily to mind. Inverting the old cliché about ‘speaking truth to power’, he is a man with power, whose function is often to speak truth. Unfortunately, the power is all too often limited, and the truth ignored.
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4 November 2019 - The Ortmann family should be celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of their farming business in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
4 November 2019 - Yet when the Democratic Alliance (DA) carries out a purge of some of its top executives many members of our print and online commentariat go into a frenzy that makes Greta Thunberg appear as calm and collected as Queen Elizabeth II.
4 November 2019 - If SA’s “economic outsiders” ever bothered to follow the metropolitan conversation, it is hard to imagine their being anything but bitter about its wilful evasiveness, its dogged avoidance of what really matters.
2 November 2019 - Perhaps the question needs to be asked whether those industries that do business with the farming economy – such as banking, in the case of Mr Maree, or those dealing in farming inputs, in agri-processing and so on – will be willing stand with it?
1 November 2019 - The Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation Amending Section 25 of the Constitution has set out its proposed timetable for the drafting of this constitutional amendment bill. It plans to give the public a scant four weeks – carefully timed to coincide with the December holidays – to comment on the bill.
1 November 2019 - To adapt the words of renowned economist Ricardo Hausmann, SA’s problem is not the jobs that exist, but those that do not exist. Until government realises this and starts incentivising employers (and potential employers) to create jobs, we can only expect our distressing unemployment situation to get worse.
31 October 2019 - Most commentators seem to assume that any additional ‘NHI’ revenues raised – whether for the Treasury’s limited package or the White Paper’s sweeping changes – will be ring-fenced and used solely to fund the NHI. But the more likely scenario is that these monies will be paid into South Africa’s National Revenue Fund and used for all types of government spending.
31 October 2019 - The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) delivered by minister of finance Tito Mboweni shows the depth of the crisis South Africa is in.
31 October 2019 - Die voormalige president, Kgalema Motlanthe, het weer eens en sonder om doekies om te draai, ’n paar dinge ten opsigte van die rigting waarin die grondbeleid stuur, kwytgeraak.
30 October 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) takes note of the deeply worrying claims made by Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso in a parliamentary committee hearing yesterday.
30 October 2019 - President Cyril Ramaphosa was in London in mid-October trotting out the reasons for Europeans to invest in South Africa.