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Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is right. The sooner the airline gets shuttered, the better for SA’s taxpayers, tourism and travellers.
Edward Lorenz left us the concept of the butterfly effect, which says even small events can have massive repercussions on the other side of the world.
You have until the end of tomorrow to lodge written objections to draft legislation giving the ANC government almost full control of your property rights, wherever you live and whoever you are.
Simply put, people are not motivated or energised by pessimists. So keep the faith Cyril and South Africa will follow your example.
The case of David Rakgase is back in the news. An elderly black farmer who has worked a farm on state-owned land for close on three decades.
At first blush yesterday’s news that South African Airways (SAA) had received a R4bn cash injection suggested the airline had beaten bankruptcy.
There are so many visible wake-up calls, including the bush fires in Australia to tell the world that reducing carbon emissions has to be tackled right now.
The world lost one of its greatest minds Thursday when 67 year old Harvard professor Clayton Christensen passed away from cancer.
Nicholas Babaya says CEOs should be more vocal “in their opposition to the constitutional amendment which is proposed”.
On 1 February 1934 a new airline was born, when the South African government took over the assets and liabilities of Union Airways, which up until then only operated as an air mail service.