26 January 2021 - Today President Ramaphosa will address the launch of Tourism Equity Fund, which was established by the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa) in partnership with the Department of Tourism ‘to drive transformation in the tourism sector’ via ‘a new financial support mechanism to stimulate investment and transformation in the tourism sector’.
25 January 2021 - Elon Musk is now supposedly the richest man in the world. Although he is the market leader, he is not the only manufacturer of electric cars, nor is that his only line of business. But it would be interesting to know how much of his wealth is due to regulatory requirements, subsidies for electric cars, and proposed bans on other types of vehicles. If governments weren’t pushing some of his products and undermining competing products, would he perhaps be a bit poorer?
22 January 2021 - What will South Africa look like when the Covid-19 pandemic has passed? As we struggle through the health crisis and the resultant dislocation – and even as we worry about the procurement and rollout of vaccines – we dare not lose sight of this question. The pandemic will ultimately pass, but its impact will be severe and long-lasting.
22 January 2021 - As South Africa wrestles with a health pandemic whose impacts look set to be with us for some time to come, we dare not forget the crisis that preceded it the country's flagging power supply.
21 January 2021 - Peter Bruce’s most recent column was a strong piece — except in his diagnosis of the problem (“Hello, useless ANC. I phoned Moderna and they have vaccines for us,” January 20).
21 January 2021 - South Africans must conclude from President Ramaphosa’s remarks this week on BEE that the ANC government has learnt nothing from the catastrophic failure of race-based empowerment policy, while stubbornly ignoring better policies such as Economic Empowerment for the Disadvantaged (EED).
20 January 2021 - The ANC has dropped the ball on vaccine procurement and rollout in a spectacular manner. By the day the signs have been mounting that our government dawdled and failed to do its homework. There is little evidence that a rollout on a massive scale can begin in the next few weeks.
20 January 2021 - “Humanitarian” organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch condemn Israel as an “apartheid” state that has refused to vaccinate Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
18 January 2021 - Simple, practical solutions could help bring an end to load-shedding and set Eskom on the path to successfully meeting its objective of effectively delivering electricity.
17 January 2021 - Welcome to the past. When the National Party was still ruling South Africa, Barclays, a major and highly visible British bank, was one of the favourite targets of the British anti-apartheid movement and various other lobbyists seeking disinvestment from South Africa. Eventually, Barclays dumped its South African subsidiary (which is now First National Bank). Many other multinational corporations did likewise.
17 January 2021 - Of the two books I received as Christmas presents, I am well into Martin Amis’s unusual, thrillingly revelatory autobiographical novel Inside Story. The second, Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, is first on the to-be-read pile at my bedside.
17 January 2021 - Your editorial referred to the “shock waves across the world” because of the attack on the US Capitol by mobs who had attended President Donald Trump’s rally (“Social media firms must be held accountable”, January 12).
Press Release: Beware of placing transformation before job creation in tourism sector
