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Reflecting on xenophobia in South Africa

Some of the influx into South Africa of migrants from failing African countries has been self-inflicted by the ANC government. In its long-standing foreign policy, the party has…

Minister Solly Malatsi launches Roadmap on Digital Transformation of the South African Government. Photo: GovernmentZA/ Flickr
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Starlink: South Africa can make better choices

South Africa’s Starlink battle is intensifying as government pushes to relax BEE ownership rules. Critics warn Elon Musk’s satellite network poses serious sovereignty, privacy…

True blue: The Democratic Alliance wants to table a bill in parliament ending broad-based black economic empowerment policy. Photo: Supplied

ANC, DA in ugly war over ‘nonsense’ BEE bill

The fallout is the latest threat to the fragile government of national unity that has frequently come to the brink of collapse over policy clashes between its two largest parties

The DA argued that the BEE policy had been created by white-owned big businesses to give shares to politically connected people in order to keep the status quo and benefit a few people.

DA urges ANC and the rest of the GNU to support its bill aimed at scrapping BEE

The Democratic Alliance is arguing that it’s in the ANC’s electoral interests to back the proposal

The black middle class in South Africa has grown, but much of the inequality in the country remains the same. (File photo)
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Race and politics distract us from the issue of inequality

South Africa’s inequality is a class issue masked by race and political infighting, distracting from pragmatic solutions and true liberation goals

The policy prohibits consensual sexual intimacy in court buildings and discourages romantic relationships between members of the judiciary.

The law is not neutral — it serves power or it serves the people

Elite corporate law firms have acted as if transformation is optional. The legal fraternity must take a clear stance in support of social justice and equality

Neglecting existing infrastructure generates higher long-term costs.

South Africa must revive its industrial ambitions

Black economic empowerment has been transformative but it needs to be revisited to broaden its pool of beneficiaries

Skilled but no jobs: South Africa’s history of dispossession and exclusion demands purposeful intervention to build a more just and inclusive economy. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

We need to change – not reject – black economic empowerment

South Africa’s history of dispossession and exclusion demands purposeful intervention to build a more just and inclusive economy

Analyses of racialised disparities in both labour and product markets illustrate the need for strengthened economic redress. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G

BEE is essential for economic growth

There is no factual evidence that deindustrialisation, poverty, inequality and unemployment is caused by black economic empowerment, as argued by William Gumede

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Malatsi denies ICT directive paves way for Elon Musk’s Starlink into South Africa

Critics say the timing is suspect, coming after businessman Johann Rupert, part of a delegation to Washington last week, said South Africa needed Starlink technology to help to…

With its roots in the country’s post-apartheid era, broad-based BEE has been a flashpoint of debate, hailed by some as a vital tool for economic transformation and denounced by others as a flawed instrument of racial preference.

What various coalition scenarios could mean for broad-based BEE

As the political horse trading begins, the fate of the controversial policy is uncertain

Photo: Laird Forbes/Gallo Images

Report urges state to cut BEE premium to reduce VAT

A report suggests that government could save R150 billion in wasteful expenditure if it stopped overpaying its contractors

Tank pipework onboard the Karmol LNGT Powership Asia floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), operated by Karpowership, viewed from the ship’s bridge whilst docked at Cape Town port in Cape Town, South Africa. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Karpowership: ‘State capture on steroids’ deal unearthed

Battle between Karadeniz and its partners shows what seems to be a plan to trade influence and deals to get Karpowership permits and benefit businesswoman Anna Mokgokong

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ActionSA comes down hard on BEE, migration

Several of the policy resolutions adopted by the party were reiterations of statements its leader, Herman Mashaba, had previously made

The role of smallholder farmers, who make up the majority of farmers, is crucial. (Gallo)

Race-based water licence allocations draw ire of farmers

Government says the draft rules are to address the disparities in access to water use left over from apartheid

According to media reports, a deal has been struck outside court between the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and Iqbal Survey’s company AYO Technology. (Gallo Images / Foto24 / Lerato Maduna)

PIC settlement: Pension fund must work for society, not a tiny elite

The AYO affair shows the GEPF should stop backing the ANC’s destructive BEE project, pull out of the stock market and support the public sector instead

Rands and sense: African Bank chief executive Kennedy Bungane says it is on target to realise its aim of being a broad-based black bank, set out nearly 60 years ago. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Black ownership in banking sector remains low

African Bank’s open listing offers a good example of how direct black ownership in the financial services sector can rise above the stubborn 25% minimum agreed upon by the…

Day in court: Mbana Thabethe, Dr Limakatso Moorosi, Seipati Dhlamini and Iqbal Sharma appeared at the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court in the Estina case. (Photo by Gallo Images/Volksblad/Mlungusi Louw)

The Zondo commission cases that have made it to the courts

The NPA has begun proceedings based on some of the testimony given at the state capture inquiry

(John McCann/M&G)

Entrepreneurship will save South Africa’s youth

Complaining about ‘reverse racism’ and BEE serves no one. South Africa’s white youth should focus on entrepreneurship instead

Weak oversight and non-compliance are causing fatal accidents at construction sites

Black construction businesses sidelined

When it comes to mega infrastructure projects, it is still the mega white-owned companies who score government contracts