22 March 2021 - ‘The end is nigh!’ is an age-old conceit of religious zealots and prophets of doom. Preaching apocalypse may comfort believers, but it isn’t very convincing to unbelievers.
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21 March 2021 - Earlier this month Phumlani Majozi wrote on Politicsweb of the “heartbreaking” figures on “family breakdown” in South Africa. Citing Statistics South Africa, he reported that 86.1% of Asian/Indian children lived with their fathers, against 80.2% of white children and 51.3% of coloured children – but only 31.7% of black African children.
18 March 2021 - Both of the parliamentary committees dealing with expropriation without compensation (EWC) bills have breached their constitutional obligations to ‘facilitate public participation’ in the legislative process.
Parliamentary committees in breach of constitutional obligations on EWC measures – IRR
18 March 2021 - Both of the parliamentary committees dealing with expropriation without compensation (EWC) bills have breached their constitutional obligations to ‘facilitate public participation’ in the legislative process, says the IRR.
17 March 2021 - Denel, the state-owned defence company, is in a spiral of terminal decline.
15 March 2021 - The thrust of your recent editorial is broadly right on the country’s poor economic prognosis, though you may be a bit soft in setting out the extent of downside risks at even the low number you cite ("Only real reform will bring a rebound", March 11).
15 March 2021 - Facebook recently extended its “climate science information centre” to South Africa, inter alia informing us that “heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires” have become “more frequent and intense” worldwide.
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).