Cyril’s ‘pie in the sky’ aspirations
SA needs a more ‘activist’ state, President Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week. A key idea here is the so called developmental state.
SA needs a more ‘activist’ state, President Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week. A key idea here is the so called developmental state.
Terence Corrigan has what, at first glance, reads like a jolly good whinge until you absorb his argument and realise how much truth there is to it.
Ramaphosa says Public Service Month should be an opportunity for the men and women tasked with this weighty responsibility to set themselves apart.
The National Policy Conference of South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has come and gone, and the skies have not fallen.
Rob Jeffery says reindustrialisation, electricity and employment growth are the keys to South Africa’s future economic, social and political prosperity.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan says the country faces a challenging two months as government, business and labour work to avoid a credit downgrade.
Johannes Wessels says it is time to bury the National Development Plan. Government has through both ignorance and deliberation strangled it to death since its publication.
Nafcoc welcomes the announcement of an expert panel on the national minimum wage and sees it as a step forward but with a significant reservation.
The ANC is in panic mode and reverting to its socialist type. The party has concluded the economy requires even more of the same command-and-control medicine.
When it comes to nation building and transformation, firms do too little, according to former finance minister Trevor Manuel.