10 November 2019 - There is no need for race in any policies targeted directly at these problems, any more than race is a factor in South Africa's extensive income redistribution system via taxation.
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10 November 2019 - Why not pivot empowerment policy so that it benefits people who are actually disadvantaged, rather than simply focusing on race, which has been SA’s curse for so long?
10 November 2019 - Die onmiskenbare leuens, misleidende inligting en nuusmanipulasie van die hoofstroom-media het rekordvlakke bereik in reaksie op die leierskapsveranderinge in die DA. Dink net daaraan hoe u mislei is.
7 November 2019 - First up for termination should be the pending expropriation without compensation (EWC) amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution.
7 November 2019 - Church men and women often see the conflict as similar to apartheid partly because of innate sympathy with the Palestinians as “victims”. But I suggest that there is at least a latent anti-Semitism that would allow resolutions of this nature to be passed without investigation and balance.
6 November 2019 - It is hardly surprising that, apart from one moment, Cyril Ramaphosa avoided the topic of Black Economic Empowerment at his Investment Summit this week. He was, after all, trying to give reasons to invest in South Africa, not to avoid it.
6 November 2019 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) today approached the Public Protector to investigate possible inefficient expenditure and maladministration under MEC for Education in Gauteng Panyaza Lesufi, and to consider remedial action.
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.
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?