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.
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.
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).
2 March 2021 - When Discovery Group "forecasts [the] possibility of a deadlier third wave", everyone should grab the edge of their seats.
1 March 2021 - “Climate change is already affecting agriculture and food security, which will make the challenge of ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture more difficult…”
28 February 2021 - There was an early 1980s joke about a South African abroad meeting someone from Lebanon and being staggered to learn that the man lived in Beirut, then well into its more than a decade of hellish civil strife, car bombs and almost constant gunfire, senseless death and perpetual fear.
28 February 2021 - Hier is tien dinge oor Tito Mboweni se begrotingstoespraak wat niemand jou nog gesê het nie.
25 February 2021 - In the wake of the budget speech, many South Africans will be relieved there was no announcement of a significant increase in taxes. Others will welcome the stated intention to reduce the deficit and the debt-to-GDP ratio. But whatever comfort may be drawn from it should not blind us to the scale of SA’s fiscal and economic challenges.