Herman Mashaba: Solidarity Shadow Report
“It is ironic that the compensatory mode and restorative justice of race-based legislation has become the leading instrument in racial disharmony.”
Education policy
How much will you need to put your kid through high school? A lot!
Gone are the days of decent education being provided to the masses for a song, savings for your child’s education has become an imperative – years in advance.
Private schooling costs squeezing the wealthy
You may have to start saving pre-conception with the cost of private schooling reaching levels of around R1 million over their span of five years.
10 top tips for saving for your child’s education
For many prospective parents, the burden of providing for a child’s education becomes more and more of a challenge as costs escalate and the general level of public school education appears to deteriorate.
The need for non-racial affirmative action in employment
South Africa has a moral obligation to address the wrongs of the past, but a race-based policy of affirmative action is an unjust and ineffective way of trying to achieve redress.
Police commissioner unapologetic for affirmative action
Government and business should never be apologetic about implementing affirmative action, national police commissioner Riah Phiyega said on Wednesday
The future of education? Graduates make a powerful case for home schooling
One of the more fascinating lunchtime discussions I recall was with then Citadel chairman and now business coach Louis Fourie. A protagonist for home schooling, more than a decade back Fourie argued passionately and logically for an alternative to an education structure that’s more Industrial than Information Age. Although I couldn’t fault his logic, it … Read more