Blowing on a threatened flame – Anthea Jeffery
This analysis and economic review by Anthea Jeffery unveils the convergence of several opposing forces into the eye of a gathering storm.
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GIBS Leadership guru: How “sly and corrupt tribalist” Zuma destroying hope.
What has happened is that the emperor has taken off his ANC garments and his real colours are showing. He is a sly and corrupt tribalist with a penchant for power and shady friends, writes Marius Oosthuizen.
BRILLIANT: John Battersby unpacks Nenegate, Jacob Zuma’s greatest blunder
John Battersby analyses the reasons for what he describes as President Jacob Zuma’s greatest blunder, exposing the personalities who played the key roles in taking the country to the edge – and those who helped drag it back from the abyss.
Shawn Hagedorn: SA’s new growth path – global integration, regional teamwork
Shawn Hagedorn says South Africa’s economy desperately needs a new growth path and not industrial fantasies
SA gearing up for Labour v Management round 2 as NUMSA prepares for a metalworkers strike
Just as South Africa is starting to recover from the longest strike on record in almost 100 years, the workers at NUMSA, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, are gearing up for their own strike in sectors ranging from communications to engineering. Almost a quarter of a million South Africans may go on … Read more
Coleman’s Op-Ed in FT: Zuma’s next deployments critical for SA and ANC
Colin Coleman has played a quiet but critical behind-the-scenes role in South Africa ever since taking over the local Goldman Sachs operation almost 14 years ago. A partner at the US investment bank, he is that financial powerhouse’s eyes, ears and mouth in this part of the world, a position that carries huge responsibility. If … Read more
SA drops to Africa’s #2, Nigeria’s rebasing puts its GDP 34% bigger at $500bn
It’s been rumoured for a while, but now South Africa’s under-performing economy has been given its coldest possible shower with news that not only has Nigeria’s GDP surpassed SA’s, but there’s daylight between the two. Nigeria’s rebased GDP is a touch above $500bn, a full one third bigger than SA’s $370bn. With Nigeria’s GDP growing … Read more
Labour Market “blackmail” is not by companies – it’s by 25% of workers who are trade unionists
Evil exists. There are truly evil people among us. The narcissists who believe they know better and will enforce their will on the rest of us, irrespective of the cost. But for the most part, humanity has more good people than bad. Except in a few isolated examples, this weight of numbers prevails. So why … Read more