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The number of murders in South Africa climbed to the highest level in at least a decade as an overburdened police force struggled to keep violent crime in check.
Here’s some food for thought served up by Paul O’Sullivan; without a rogue element in the media, the State Capture project would have been impossible.
Yesterday’s RMB/BER Business Confidence Index told us eight out of every ten respondents to this prestigious survey are “unsatisfied with prevailing business conditions.”
Ramaphosa has survived his challenging week. We now wait to see how Julius Malema fares after dynamite disclosures around profligate spending of money plundered from the poor.
Pauli van Wyk opened the EFF’s hypocrisy window wider still after meticulously researching and detailing EFF leader Julius Malema’s astonishing profligacy with money plundered from the poorest of the poor.
Fikile Mbalula has spent R110m on awards ceremonies in two years; the three-year Olympic budget is R25m.
Victimisation of doctors where trade unions, district managers and political bosses collude, is something of an intermittent, hidden sport in South Africa.
Rene van Wyk was appointed to hold the fort until the ABSA’s new CEO (who has been selected, but not yet announced) takes over next year.
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who in Pretoria in the early 1960s was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain has died peacefully aged 92 with her family in Neath, South Wales.
Investors are under-estimating how challenging it will be for SA president Cyril Ramaphosa to calm agitated Nigerian waters.