11 June 2021 - It was probably bound to happen. The consequences of the latest round of the Israel-Gaza conflict (or whatever name one chooses to assign it) were going to land on someone.
Media
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11 June 2021 - The ANC has always claimed a unique entitlement to act, speak, and rule on behalf of South Africa’s black majority.
10 June 2021 - The ANC has always claimed a unique entitlement to act, speak, and rule on behalf of South Africa’s black majority. This arrogance, along with its socialist ideology, has long made it extraordinarily resistant to heeding what citizens have to say about the pressing policy issues of the day.
10 June 2021 - The constitutional amendment was pushed along through a highly visible campaign of public and parliamentary hearings, along with invitations for written submissions. These were nominally held to gauge whether or not such an amendment was required, and what the public thought of it. Hundreds of thousands of submissions were made on the issue, with all indications that the bulk of these opposed the amendment.
10 June 2021 - Ever since the African National Congress officially committed itself to expropriation without compensation in late 2017, it has struggled to square the impossible circle: how going down this investment-killing path could be justified in a country whose very future hinged on vastly accelerating growth.
9 June 2021 - Jonny Steinberg (“Constituency voting could spawn even uglier politics”, June 3) raised a number of concerns about electoral reform, cautioning it is not likely to be a silver bullet.
8 June 2021 - After years of turning a blind eye, the South African Post Office is now challenging the right of courier companies to deliver packages of 1kg or less. In law, it’s right. In principle, far from it. I propose a compromise.
8 June 2021 - Dr Frans Cronje, chief executive of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes: ‘It was alarming to see the extent to which fallacious nonsense came to define public policy debates such as that “white privilege” and “white monopoly capital” explained black poverty when, as just one example, South Africa was recording some of the worst school-level literacy and numeracy rates of any emerging market.’
Proposed gun law changes will place women at greater risk of gender-based violence – IRR
8 June 2021 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) warns that proposed changes to South Africa’s gun laws will place women at greater risk of gender-based violence.
7 June 2021 - Telling people how many babies they can have is probably the ultimate in political, social, economic, and family planning. That is what China did, a dictatorial policy it is now trying to reverse.
7 June 2021 - President Cyril Ramaphosa was in full but unconvincing reassurance mode at a media briefing last Thursday. The president told journalists the ANC differs from the EFF and does not want the pending constitutional amendment bill (the expropriation without compensation – EWC bill) to include state custodianship of all land.
7 June 2021 - South Africa is undergoing what may be the most consequential policy push since the inception of democracy in 1994 and the adoption of its internationally respected constitution two years later. In its popular formulation, this is about land and land ownership, and the historical context of dispossession – what is often termed the ‘land question’. It has become indelibly associated with the notion of Expropriation without Compensation (EWC).