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The IDC should establish an independent forum to address employee relations issues.
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Editorial: IDC decline should be arrested

Let us be fair: allegations of a deteriorating corporate culture within the institution remain just that—allegations—until proven otherwise. However, the issues presented to us…

South African Communist Party general secretary Solly Mapaila

SACP to endorse decision to campaign alone for 2026 local government elections

The party will hold a special policy conference to decide on how to reconfigure its longstanding alliance with the ANC

Hlophe said the Constitution obstructed efforts to reclaim land and mineral resources. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images).

Hlophe says GNU has failed citizens and puts elites first

The government of national unity has betrayed the trust of South African citizens, according to the uMkhonto weSizwe deputy president

Charmaine Mabuza, ITHUBA CEO.
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Transforming lives: The impact of quality education in South Africa

Since 1999, ITHUBA’s Scholarship programme has supported more than 300 young South Africans in pursuing tertiary education

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

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…

True mentorship is not about hierarchy. It’s about co-creation. Photo: File

Is B-BBEE an anchor for democracy?

Empowering the poor should be what underlies every debate and policy adopted in South Africa

Many people lack reliable electricity, clean water and adequate housing. When the state fails to provide these services, rights such as dignity, equality and access to healthcare are undermined.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

An inconvenient truth: Virus presents symptoms of socio-economic injustice

The speed at which substantial wealth was given shows that investment in transformation and justice does not enjoy the same humanitarian response

Light bulb: Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has a plan to fix Eskom without people losing their jobs. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images)

Light at the end of Eskom tunnel?

The treasury has mooted selling the utility’s coal-fired stations, but this doesn’t mean privatisation

Panelists Sonja De Bruyn, MD, Identity Partners; Sylvia Chahonyo, Country Manager for Moody’s SA; Busi Mavuso, COO, Business Leadership SA; with Arthur Kamp, chief economist, Sanlam Investment Management

Putting Thuma Mina into action

SMMEs require collateral to get going and thrive: trust is the key

(Graphic: John McCann)

Financial sector gets wake-up call

Following several reports, it has again been criticised for not transforming enough

Street hawkers sell their wares to passing pedestrians on a road near the headquarters of the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria.

SACP won’t back ‘radical looting’

The general secretary has lashed out at those in the ANC who have a ‘Guptarisation’ agenda

After his resignation

Editorial: The poor are used in the economic and power war

The politics surrounding transformation obfuscate the urgency of South Africa’s socioeconomic malaise.

The ruling government adopted the National Development Plan at the beginning of the past decade, as its plan to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality by 2030.

​The nuts and bolts of radical economic transformation

President Jacob Zuma outlined an agenda that will create jobs and change the face of the economy.

Radical economic transformation remains a pipedream

In the government’s description of radical economic transformation, actually, there is very little economic transformation, let alone a ‘radical’ one.

Entrenched positions hinder youth entrepreneurship

An entrepreneur speaks of his frustration from operating in a market in which the odds are still heavily stacked against black entrepreneurs.

An entrepreneurship sub-committee on the Human Resources Development Council reports to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe.

BEE law has failed small enterprises, say black leaders

There is an urgent need to review black economic empowerment, say business leaders.

The carpenter’s tale

How hard work and a willingness to learn, plus a bit of luck, transformed a life.

Justin Visagie

SA’s mysterious ‘middle class’

Black diamonds confuse analysis of BEE success or failure.

A legacy of empowerment

The history of black economic emancipation would be incomplete without the role played by the Nafcoc.