15 January 2019 - A state that can struggle to distribute drivers’ licences, or to maintain roads and water systems is hardly an ideal candidate to reconfigure society, and judiciously manage the property rights of its citizens. Together, this suggests more continuity than change: a continuity manifesting itself in both the problems and the policy responses.
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15 January 2019 - In a best-case scenario, expropriation without compensation will impose a burden on the country’s prospects for some time until investors, domestic and foreign, determine that it is being undertaken “sufficiently well”.
15 January 2019 - By Loxton’s reasoning, the malfeasance at Steinhoff and KPMG means that the entire SA corporate and professional sector, including his own law firm, is part of the culture of corruption.
14 January 2019 - As elections approach and our credulity is tested, we owe it to ourselves to weigh the claims that will inevitably be made about “transformation” against its singular, dubious achievement of sustaining discord at the cost of progress.
13 January 2019 - Although many – perhaps most – ordinary South Africans are unaware of it, a major stride has already been taken towards a regime of expropriation without compensation-style latitude for the government.
13 January 2019 - Whether overt in the form of massacres or racist remarks on Greek beaches, or seemingly innocuous in the guise of harmless micro-aggression, the supposed prevalence of "whiteness" provides a scapegoat for the prevalence of poverty and inequality, which is blamed not on ANC policy but on "structural and institutional racism". It also provides a pretext for moving to the next stage of implementing the national democratic revolution, namely expropriation of property without compensation – commitment to which was last week yet again reiterated by Cyril Ramaphosa.
13 January 2019 - Uiteindelik is dit aan elkeen van ons oorgelaat om die slegte idees wat die haat en onheil van Suid Afrika se nieumodiese linksgesindes aanblaas, die hoof te bied.
12 January 2019 - The African National Congress’ January 8 Statement and manifesto are reminiscent of what an analyst once said of the country’s foreign policy: ‘a little bit of this and a little bit of that’. Regrettably, these bits are often contradictory, and at times fanciful.
10 January 2019 - Indeed, EWC offers nothing to address the deeper failures of South Africa’s land reform projects – arguably the most serious of which has been the failure to provide the title deeds and support that would make them sustainable.
9 January 2019 - It is not Siya Kolisi who deserves public ire, but the national government which cannot ensure a sports field for every school in the country.
9 January 2019 - This year's elections will no doubt provide plenty of opportunity to attack "colonialism" and "imperialism". The 120th anniversary of the start of one of the worst episodes in the long history of British imperialism is likely to pass unnoticed, however.
9 January 2019 - The ANC has killed many things in its first 25 years, but far and away its greatest victory was the day it killed SA’s democratic imagination.