SA’s festering land dispossession boil needs a proper lancing
It’s depressing to witness the hate and bile erupting over South Africa’s land debate. Emotion and wisdom are poor bedfellows.
It’s depressing to witness the hate and bile erupting over South Africa’s land debate. Emotion and wisdom are poor bedfellows.
Allister Sparks courageously produced a newspaper which in SA’s darkest days offered hope to the otherwise hopeless. His memory deserves every plaudit sure to come its way.
Alec ruminates on Peter Bruce’s father, Harold’s life – including a front row seat of extraordinary waste generated by the Apartheid Government’s policy of Separate Development.
In this fascinating interview, veteran Shell executive Jan-Willem Eggink delivers a masterclass in Fracking, or Hydraulic Fracturing as the industry prefers to call it. He does his best to downplay hype around the Karoo Shale Gas deposits, explaining that all we have to go on right now are Soekor’s wells drilled half a century ago … Read more
Allan Greenblo was my boss at Finance Week in the early 1980s and wrote extensively then about attempts to introduce compulsory preservation of pensions. Those were heady times. Labour was starting to flex new muscles legalised through the laws enacted following the Wiehahn Commission, and it was before the UDF’s internal activism hit top gear. … Read more