Tag: corruption
Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of State Capture Report –...
After three years of public hearings and with a price tag of over a billion Rand, Justice R.M.M. Zondo, the Acting Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, handed the third part of a three-part report on state capture and corruption during the presidency of Jacob Zuma, to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa 2022
President Ramaphosa delivered the Nation Address on Thursday evening from the Cape Town City Hall, as the country struggles with an ailing economy, civil unrest, corona virus, state capture and a promise-weary public.
Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of State Capture, Corruption and...
After three years of public hearings and with a price tag of over a billion Rand, Justice R.M.M. Zondo, the Acting Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, handed the second part of a three-part report on state capture and corruption during the presidency of Jacob Zuma, to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
BOOK REVIEW | Tom Clancy’s Chain of Command
The gripping new thriller in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series - inspiration for the blockbuster Amazon Prime TV series. America is under attack from within. Patients in hospitals, clinics, and at home are dying when the drugs they need for survival turn out to be ineffective copies.
More state intervention will result in a stagnant economy
Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) General Secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali’s thought-provoking, in-depth piece advocating the ostensible strengths of the government's localisation plans refers ('Ideologues do the jobless a disservice by turning localisation into a swearword', January 9).
Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of State Capture, Corruption and...
After three years of public hearings and with a price tag of over a billion Rand, Justice R.M.M. Zondo, the Acting Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa, handed the first part of a three-part report on state capture and corruption during the presidency of Jacob Zuma, to President Cyril Ramaphosa.
High economic growth is a matter of choice not chance or...
Free economies do not come about by chance. They are the result of the conscious creation of a business environment that is conducive to a high level of entrepreneurial activity and that has a minimum of bureaucratic red tape.
Investment ghosts of the past, present and future
There has certainly been plenty of foolishness, as a new generation of day-traders have pushed meme stocks, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and cryptos to ridiculous levels. Battle-hardened investment professionals have not been immune to bouts of irrational exuberance either.
BOOK REVIEW | Of Vagabonds, Missionaries and Thieves
Set in the 19th century Boer Republic of Transvaal, Southern Africa, the Boer Dirk van Zyl leads his band of vagabonds in raids on African villages, capturing children to be traded for cattle and sold into labour on the Boer farms.
Expropriation Without Compensation – have SA’s citizens merely dodged the bullet?
History repeats itself – with vicious, chilling accuracy. Just under twenty years ago, the Zimbabwean justice system seemed to have prevailed over a frothing-at-the-mouth late President Robert Mugabe who had lost a number of court battles against the besieged white commercial farmers.
