EDITORS’ LUNCHBOX: ‘Blame white monopoly capital for the downgrades’
Helen Zille and Patricia de Lille upset Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, and the new Eskom board is not up to the task
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is outraged Western Cape premier Helen Zille and Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille did not attend her press conference despite receiving "subpoenas". Fitch and S&P Global Ratings cutting SA’s sovereign credit rating to junk is a white monopoly capital plot against President Jacob Zuma and the ANC, the party’s KwaZulu-Natal chairman, Sihle Zikalala, said. In My Opinion Matters of debate Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has again done the odd thing that has become normal practice for Cabinet ministers in SA. She has appointed a collection of people to sit on the board of one of the most important firms in the economy who are entirely unsuited to the job. Care work is both difficult and low-paid, yet the "psychic income" of doing something worthwhile offers workers alternative compensations, writes Livia Gershon. Finding Alpha The long and the short of the markets Eskom sneaked an inflated advance p...
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