Economy

 

Varsity Unrest Looms Despite Plea By Nzimande

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Students at the University of Pretoria on Monday vowed to disrupt academic operations if their mission of ensuring free education was not fulfilled. They gave the university until Thursday to release all students’ marks that had been blocked based on financial circumstances. Various university students at the Union Buildings during the #FeesMustFall Protests.  The students..
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Black Author Admits What We Already Know: “There Are No Successful Black Nations”

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In a recent article of Foreign Policy, Black author Chigozie Obioma has written openly what all race-conscious Whites knew all along – namely that “There are no successful Black nations.” He is candid in admitting that Black incompetence, destructive selfishness, ineptitude, and corruption serve as the major reasons, although he doesn’t seem to attribute any of it..
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Out-Of-Touch Ramaphosa Stacks Minimum Wage Deck – Another Job Killer Coming

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Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa Just how far the thought processes of South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa have regressed is illustrated in the handling of the most important decisions he has been entrusted with as Jacob Zuma’s #2. During the Mandela era, Ramaphosa was a powerful force for conciliation, making headlines through, for example, convincing potential emigres..
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Mandela’s Rainbow Nation Is Back; Voters Rejected Racists.

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Repercussions from the result of last week’s municipal elections continue to reverberate around South Africa. While the post-mortems of most pundits focus on challenges of forming ruling coalitions in the 27 “hung” metro and municipal councils, political veteran Douglas Gibson takes an upbeat approach. For him, the elections show a different reality. The fear-based racist..
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Coalition Chess: Should DA Give Tshwane To EFF? What Voters Say

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News emerging from DA-EFF talks about deals the DA and the EFF have made to oust the ANC in Johannesburg and Tshwane has outraged some voters, but delighted others. With municipal coalition details expected to be announced anytime from Sunday, the debate is hotting up over whether it is a good idea for the DA..
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Flip Buys: A Saturday Morning Chat Exposes EFF Myths, Just Like Ayn’s Novels

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Over half a century back, free market protagonist Ayn Rand educated an entire generation of Americans through easy-to-read novels The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). Readers are unlikely to forget the rational approach to unleashing human potential personified in fictional characters like John Galt, Howard Roark, and Dagney Taggart. Solidarity’s general secretary Flip Buys..
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Behind The DA’s Surge

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Mmusi Maimane. The DA has claimed a 27% share of the overall vote, largely at the expense of the ANC. But it wasn’t just Mmusi Maimane’s charm that did it, writes S’thembiso Msomi. WHAT IT MEANS: The DA leader may find himself being called Mr President by 2019. The blue party increased its support among..
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Sorting Out The ANC’s Post Election Priorities

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You know what I like about the ANC? They always have their priorities straight and sorted out. South Africa is getting new car license plates An official unemployment rate of 27%, in reality, closer to 50%, and all they are worried about are new license plates…and renaming streets after their dead Communist terrorists. Brilliant! Well,..
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TAXIS: The Scourge Of The South African Road Transport System ………..

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THE other day I was traveling down a road in the good old Cape Town.   It was peak time late afternoon and as usual in the Metropole, the traffic was yet another mess-up, as every opportunist tried to push and shove his way into any open space on the road.   At a traffic light,..
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New Number Plates For South Africa

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Arrive Alive recently tweeted a reminder that South Africa is due to receive new number plates in the near future. New national number plates were first officially mentioned in a Department of Transport Notice on 28 January 2015. The draft regulation amendments were opened to public comment at the time of their publication. Reporting on the..
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Scenario Planning: With Disaster Looming In Zimbabwe, What Should South Africa Do?

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A tyre burns on a street in Mufakose in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 6, 2016 In the rolling disaster that is our neighbour, South Africa should put some thought into what could or should be done to help both countries to weather the coming storm. Zimbabwe has run out of money, this despite the planeload of..
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These Are The Skills South Africans Are Taking To Australia

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 Figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows a big  jump in the number of South Africans who have immigrated to Australia over the past few years. Using census data from 2011, Australia’s official statistical organisation noted that approximately 145,683 South Africans were living in the country – 8th behind the UK, New Zealand, China,..
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New – United States Air Base In Botswana

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  ” The US Embassy in Gaborone this week confirmed that plans are in the ADVANCED stage to set up a military airfield in Botswana. There are claims with the military airfield, A HEAVY MILITARY presence in Botswana is also anticipated” http://www.herald.co.zw/botswana-to-host-us-airfield/ http://www.sundaystandard.info/botswana-host-american-airbase I mentioned a year back ( Apr 29, 2015@ 09:59) that I had..
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Deceptive Chaos And The Return To Tribal Politics

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Whites. We Are Now In Serious Trouble!!!! If we look at the recent schools which have been burnt down, you will notice they are in the Limpopo province where their new Messiah comes from known as Julius Malema, leader of the EFF sponsored by a faction of the ANC. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36203995 http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/let-the-schools-burn-let-them-burn-vuwani-resident-20160507 In the upcoming elections,..
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Brocklebank: No Need For Brexit Blues – All Round UK Really Is Better Off Out Of The EU

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    Orbis’s director of UK Business, Dan Brocklebank, was among only a handful of London’s financial community who was openly pro-Brexit, as he shared in an interview with Biznews.com’s Alec Hogg a fortnight before the vote. In the wake of the historic decision – despite London’s 60:40 vote to “Remain” – Hogg caught up..
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