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We’re rowing against the fiscal deficit stream – IRR
Pravin Gordhan In stark contrast to the dominant analytical discourse that seems to mostly favour Gordhan’s budget, the leadership duo of the Institute for Race Relations (IRR), Gwen Ngwenya and Frans...
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How world sees SA: Zuma ‘functionally illiterate on economics’, country ruled...
South Africans have become accustomed to having a president that is a bit of a clown: falls asleep on the job, can’t count properly and is generally daft on a day-to-day basis. But the international...
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A credible Gordhan was stymied by political & policy paralysis – lacked a...
Tax guru Matthew Lester summed it up – a country going nowhere slowly. And him beating on the growth drum is exactly what political analyst Daniel Silke picks up from Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s...
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How world sees SA: Under Zuma, South Africa is an organised crime syndicate...
South Africa is sinking so swiftly in the quicksand of moral decay that corruption and state looting have become institutionalised. An influential London-based newspaper has highlighted the astonishing...
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Pityana to Molefe; ‘Foolishly opted to be state capture tool rather than...
Brian Molefe’s subsequent rise from the ashes has left many wondering. The crocodile tears shed as he departed Eskom are indeed turning out to be a brilliant case of Hollywood, with talent scouts sure...
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Gordhan’s killer blow to SA? Expect higher debt, tax revolt as tax hikes take...
South Africa needs to do more to plug its deficit than target the rich, argues law expert Thabo Legwaila of the University of Johannesburg. In a scathing assessment of Pravin Gordhan’s 2017 budget,...
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“Entitled” Prasa chief dismissed – timing of 350% salary hike idiotic
Something is seriously “out” in the 350% hike that former Prasa acting CEO Collins Letsoalo got shortly before he was dismissed (read re-deployed) recently. The board says there was a ‘huge...
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The ANC’s horrific record of maintenance and repair – Ed Herbst
The words ‘preventative maintenance’ are an anathema to most municipal managers, and other deployed cadres at every level of service delivery in South Africa, as Ed Herbst so tellingly illustrates. I’d...
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SASSA “skimming the poor” – the outrage mounts
Constitutional Court of South Africa Zohra Dawood, Director of the Centre for Unity in Diversity, is incensed and outraged. That much is clear from the literary blow she delivers here to SASSA’s...
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Clawing our way off the fiscal cliff – an economic rescue plan
It’s one thing to expose our tragically poor economic performance over the past few years, but quite another to suggest, point for point, what needs to be done. That’s what economist John Maynard does...
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ANC policy discussion document – deal with corruption or die as a party
It can be a bit confusing reading the ANC’s pre-mid-year policy conference discussion document. On one hand, it wants stronger powers for the Presidency and on the other it says the party will die if...
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It’s war! Can Prasa board members keep their jobs? R14bn corruption scandal...
Transport minister Dipuo Peters In August 2015, former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found evidence of widespread maladministration and impropriety in the awarding of tenders worth about R2.8bn at...
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A bottomless pit? Increasing the BEE burden yet again…– Anthea Jeffery
It’s no secret that South Africa’s per capita income growth has been negative in recent years. And expecting things to change, by doing the same thing over again and again, is simply defined as...
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Alarming how charming it could be to go a Zuptoid farming…
The EFF-type land-grab lobby in the ANC is gaining momentum in the run up to the party’s July policy conference with President Zuma’s powerful KwaZulu-Natal backers joining the fray – just as...
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Exposing the full value of certain overseas junkets by officials and MP’s –...
Here’s a refreshing tonic which provides a nice palate cleanser anywhere you choose to insert it in your daily four-course meal of dysfunction, irregularity, corruption and incompetence served up by...
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Maimane: Be very afraid SA! Zuma, his gang are targeting judiciary
South Africa has descended into kleptocracy – rule by thieves. Evidence has mounted over the past year of a concerted plan to take control of state assets for personal benefit. This ‘state capture’...
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Stop ANC drinking from poison chalice of corruption: Archbishop Makgoba urges...
President Jacob Zuma Support for President Jacob Zuma and his corrupt faction is steadily waning within the ANC. Nowhere was this more evident than at the funeral of ANC struggle stalwart Ahmed...
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Jannie Rossouw: Catastrophe looms as #Zumicon madness gives Zuma full control...
The firing of South Africa’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan puts the public purse firmly in President Jacob Zuma’s hands, a South African economics expert has warned. University of the Witwatersrand...
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South Africans call for Zuma’s head as #Zumicon plunges country into deep crisis
Staff Writer President Jacob Zuma could easily have tipped South Africa over the edge of a cliff into deep financial crisis with #Zumicon, his radical overhaul of the cabinet this week. He switched 10...
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