EDITORIAL: We’re not as insulated as we think from coronavirus fallout
In SA, we might think we’re insulated. But don’t be fooled
EDITORIAL: Tips for Tito: a plea for wage restraint
The FM’s big tip for finance minister Tito Mboweni would have been to get a deep conversation going with the unions before the budget on the need for wage ...
EDITORIAL: Waiting for the Guptas
How long, one wonders, before SA can finalise its mutual legal assistance agreement with Dubai, and the state goes calling on the Guptas
EDITORIAL: Welcome back, Tongaat
Gavin Hudson, who took over as CEO of Tongaat Hulett last year, has done a commendable job fixing up the beleaguered sugar company after an accounting crisis ...
EDITORIAL: Will Mantashe’s words translate into action?
The fact is, the ANC-led government has never walked the talk — it remains to be seen whether it will act swiftly to implement the measures announced by ...
EDITORIAL: ANC’S grim radical economic transformation threat
If the ANC continues to pander to its ‘radical economic transformation’ faction, there will be nothing left of the economy to transform
EDITORIAL: Finding the NHI’s money fairy
Frighteningly, it appears that those mandated to explain the plan to the public exist in a parallel universe, where laws of basic mathematics and finance don’t ...
EDITORIAL: Reserve Bank’s cheap money no cure
For many, the question isn’t whether the Bank is inconsistent, but whether it should have gone further to help an economy in free fall
EDITORIAL: Ramaphosa’s blog from another land
Ramaphosa’s rehash of the most basic of ambitions is indicative of the dearth of ideas that has paralysed the ANC and is strangling SA
EDITORIAL: Axing Gordhan a short cut to ruin
His appointment as a personal clean-up emissary of the president has made him a target for the enablers of state capture
EDITORIAL: Bracing for futile Davos hubris
It’s Davos time again. The platitudes will flow thick and fast with the same discernable impact they have every year: not much
EDITORIAL: Throttling the golden goose
Figures from the SA Revenue Service, released before Christmas, reveal just how frighteningly fragile the corporate sector really is, with dire implications ...
EDITORIAL: Mnangagwa as vile as Robert Mugabe
Having cowed the citizenry into apathy through privation and intimidation, Emmerson Mnangagwa has now set about eliminating political threats to his rule
EDITORIAL: Eskom’s addiction: just say ‘no’
The chutzpah shown in demanding an extra 17% hike to your electricity tariff, to cover R27bn in losses caused by load-shedding, is remarkable
EDITORIAL: Angie Motshekga gets klapped
That minister of basic education Angie Motshekga spent two years fighting to keep undocumented children out of school is an indictment of her tenure
EDITORIAL: The last of a generation of SA freedom fighters with integrity
He was never shy to raise uncomfortable questions – a quality increasingly rare in a party that values obsequiousness above critical thought
EDITORIAL: Stage 6 – a depressing new normal
Even Ramaphosa’s most loyal supporters, if they had their way, would probably choose to put the government and the ANC into business rescue, alongside SAA
EDITORIAL: SAA is a leech, not a ‘public good’
Gordhan’s determination to support SAA, which appears to be at odds with the feelings of finance minister Tito Mboweni, is increasingly a matter of national ...
EDITORIAL: Act that defies reason
Bathabile Dlamini can fume all she wants, but she can’t change the facts. Now, where is the NPA?
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