EDITORIAL: State grinds to a halt, as ANC spins
With the ANC in full campaign mode, the actual business of running the country has ground to a halt
GIULIETTA TALEVI: Why the JSE is shrinking (hint: it’s not a cyclical slump)
SA is making a hash of itself as an investable destination, with its strangulating levels of red tape, incoherent policy and anti-business ideology
Giulietta Talevi Money & Investing editor
EDITORIAL: Clueless DA lost in noise
Far from making political hay from the ANC’s woeful own goals, the DA has launched into election ‘hold my beer’ mode
EDITORIAL: Mark Zuckerberg’s just deserts
Zuckerberg lost nearly $7bn of his personal fortune as Facebook’s stock price plunged on Monday
EDITORIAL: Promise everything, deliver nothing
By November 2, ANC leaders will have switched their attention to the next internal contest for power, which is set to take place at the end of 2022
EDITORIAL: Government sitting on its hands
The SA government, by sitting on its hands, also played a role in the UK red list bungling
EDITORIAL: Looting civil servants thwart Ramaphosa’s manifesto launch
The problem is deeper than simply a lack of ethics — it is directly linked to the lack of consequences for wrongdoing
EDITORIAL: Balls-up a body blow to tourism
If the UK thought this parlously thin reasoning and abysmal attempt at science would withstand scrutiny, it has woefully misjudged the matter
EDITORIAL: A blunt warning on land
The annual economic freedom of the world index, which measures factors including the extent to which property rights are protected and the ability to trade ...
EDITORIAL: An expense SA can’t afford
Enoch Godongwana made it clear that the country simply cannot afford a BIG, nor could it fund various other projects on the wish list, while at the same time ...
EDITORIAL: Ignore the ANC’s whingeing — donor transparency is vital
The bottom line is, as awkward as transparency may be for potential donors, this is a necessary consequence of democracy
EDITORIAL: A (new) SA fraud first
Steinhoff passed the first major hurdle on the way to what would be a world first: rescuing a company crippled by what seemed to be an inescapably fatal fraud
EDITORIAL: Reprieve will help ANC — not save it
The ANC, after all its bungling, is likely to lose big — but it won’t be the only one
EDITORIAL: Don’t believe ANC on whistle-blowers
Nothing in the conduct of Ramaphosa’s administration speaks to a state eager to actually do what he says it will do. Rather, it speaks to a venal state eager ...
EDITORIAL: Zulu does U-turn on pension plan — but blood has already been drawn
Will Lindiwe Zulu’s department learn from this debacle, or will the plan emerge again later, dressed up in another guise but based on the same flawed ideas?
EDITORIAL: A crisis created by Zuma
Economists warned in 2014, sooner or later, the country would have to pay the price for the ruinous Zuma years — and now we are
EDITORIAL: Loony pension plan reveals desperation
Government clearly still hasn’t grasped how much damage policy uncertainty does to investor confidence
EDITORIAL: Bheki Cele’s cop thugs
In scenes reminiscent of the early-lockdown jackboot approach, police have reportedly — without search warrants — broken into shacks in search of looted goods
EDITORIAL: Government plays dice with brittle restaurants
If you’re looking for a manifestation of the ANC’s hostility to business, you don’t need to look much further than the 1,100 restaurants that have folded in ...
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