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Raw sewage on potholed streets, piles of garbage on sidewalks and water and power shortages became routine in the South African municipality of Makana. Then something extraordinary happened that could change the face of local government politics.
Mike Pompeo has strong condemnation for the plan to seize land without compensation, warning it would be a disaster for the economy and would definitely deter foreign investment.
If expropriation without compensation is adopted, the EFF and the radical economic transformation faction wins and the ”liberal-constitutional ANC of Nelson Mandela would effectively be dead.”
More than two years on, Ramaphoria has evaporated as the business-savvy president struggles to get the police and prosecutors moving on graft-tainted individuals.
After the delay it was business as usual for President Cyril Ramaphosa. Here’s his full State of the Nation speech.
SA’s unemployment crisis is the deepest and most persistent in the world, owing to 40 years of slow economic growth, a skills shortage, and poor policy choices.
South Africans have shown their resilience and compassion time and again and it’s no wonder Sir Trevor McDonald had a change of heart when he travelled our land.
The pound rose strongly in the wake of this morning’s news of a historic realignment of British politics where many working class seats have switched across to the Conservative Party whose leader Boris Johnson has the mandate to enact Brexit next month.
Chuck Stephens writes that South Africa should take Jacob Zuma’s passport away because he believes that as the net is closing in on the ex-president, Zuma might try to make a run for it.
It’s well and good to criticise, but unions like Numsa have failed to offer solutions that will actually save this country from ruin.