EDITOR’S LUNCHBOX: Which is it, Zuma? President or security guard?
And which came first, the local chicken or sanctions banning exports of food products to Russia leading to cheaper chicken imports into SA?
Stories of Note Bytes from the digital world "If we can work our way out of [this] cycle and turn ourselves towards a virtuous cycle over the next three months or so, then it’s possible, in the first instance, to avoid the last downgrade — potentially from Moody’s; but secondly, create a real round of optimism in the country," former finance minister Pravin Gordhan tells Business Day TV. With peak tourist season on its way, Cape Town faces the quandary of water rationing versus allowing visitors to have baths and flush the loo. In My Opinion Matters of debate Chicken importers hurt local farmers and "there is little or no proof that the benefits of cheap imports (at about R17/kg, versus local production costs of about R25/kg) are reaching the consumer," argues Agri SA head economist Johan Willemse. Jacob Zuma might simultaneously have been our president and a glorified security guard, being paid a R1m a month by a security company owned by shady Durban businessman Roy Moodley, write...
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