Is instant messaging a useful tool or a way to invade privacy, especially when used outside of personal relationships? It all depends on how you do it and your intentions. These tools aren’t going away, and are getting even more efficient.
Mosebenzi Zwane has come a long way in a very short time. Read his statement issued this evening, recommending a Judicial Enquiry into SA’s banking system.
Former SA Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni has resorted to his Facebook page to send a message to the Zuma Administration to stop being stupid.
In financial markets, once trust is broken things tend to happen very quickly, sometimes all it takes is a single lender to declare that it is heading for the exit to trigger the financial equivalent of a nuclear explosion.
Treasury’s “nuclear bomb” option is apparently so powerful that it guarantees if Gordhan goes, so will the country’s credit rating (and Rand, and stock market, etc…).
South Africa is once more on the brink of a Nenegate abyss after President Jacob Zuma’s fiercely loyal arm of the police service, the Hawks, demanded that the country’s respected Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan present himself tomorrow morning. Here is his statement on the matter.
Reports on Tuesday said President Zuma would now head up all SOCs, which got many economic and political commentators reaching for their keyboards.
Those who engineered the sale of SA’s Strategic Fuel Fund on the conditions reported, did it solely to enrich themselves. They stole at least R1.5bn, perhaps as much as R2.2bn, from South African taxpayers.
In this definitive election guide RW Johnson says that the DA does not have an easy path forward into 2019.
South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) and the radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will not form coalition governments in two key municipalities.