EDITORIAL: For the SABC’s sake, keep Stella away
The SABC is one of the most financially delinquent of all state-owned entities, but Ndabeni-Abrahams’s ham-fisted intervention has only made it worse
EDITORIAL: Ratings agencies won’t buy the spin
Any further negative ratings action would reinforce the doom loop SA is trying to break free from, and likely steepen the cost of borrowing
EDITORIAL: Showing SA the finger
It should not have come as a surprise that Shepherd Bushiri and his wife were able to skip the country while out on bail — the truth is that they should never ...
EDITORIAL: Sasol’s bitter pill
Sasol seems to feel it can do as it pleases with scant regard for long-suffering investors
EDITORIAL: Lotto leeches probed
This won’t please the "lottopreneurs", but it’s about time that another open tap, which has been roundly abused, is finally closed
EDITORIAL: SA’s name dragged through the mud
The cherry on top of Dirco’s failures is the SA government’s continued soft diplomacy on Zimbabwe
EDITORIAL: Buyback into limbo
Prosus critics argue that it must buy companies — but can’t because the stock is cheap. Which suggests a state of protracted limbo, unless and until Tencent is ...
EDITORIAL: Another NPA fumble
After a decade of hollowing out law enforcement agencies, it is clear that SA’s investigation and prosecution capacity is sorely lacking
EDITORIAL: No, SA doesn’t need (and can’t afford) a new lockdown
Why do politicians reflexively grasp for another lockdown, despite evidence from scientists that the previous one failed to work?
EDITORIAL: Why ‘solidarity tax’ won’t fly
The government must show it can keep its hands out of state coffers before it increases taxes on already overburdened citizens
EDITORIAL: SABC in the dudu
SABC3’s Trending SA missed the mark by a country mile when it invited ‘accomplished businessman’ Duduzane Zuma for an interview
EDITORIAL: Clarity at last on land expropriation
The EFF and the radical economic transformation faction of the ANC are unlikely to be satisfied; they are likely to continue pulling Ramaphosa by the nose on ...
CLAIRE BISSEKER: A meandering economic map for the road to nowhere
The economy must now sprint from a standing start, while following a map that meanders all over the place
Claire Bisseker Economics writer
EDITORIAL: Nice start, Shamila — but remember 2005
In August 2005 the Scorpions raided Zuma’s Forest Town home. What followed that dramatic morning is a whirlwind that led to the severe weakening of the justice ...
EDITORIAL: Legitimising xenophobia
Clause in new Gauteng Township Economic Development Draft Bill stipulates that business activities within townships would be reserved for SA citizens, or those ...
EDITORIAL: SAA’s royal game
SAA’s bailout is the forced reprioritisation of money from real pro-poor programmes, just to keep a failed airline alive
EDITORIAL: ARC tone-deaf to plight of its shareholders
This kind of thing doesn’t help SA’s capitalist apparatus, already under fire from many in the ruling party, demonstrate that it’s not the extractive system ...
EDITORIAL: DA hiding bitter battles
Its conduct will not only ensure that the ANC remains in power. It will also give a leg-up to Julius Malema’s EFF, providing it with a key stake in the running ...
EDITORIAL: No pilot for latest SAA flight of fancy
The endless blundering about from certainty to uncertainty, from a commitment to ‘mobilising funds’ to the absence of the same, ultimately has an impact on the ...
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