By Toby Chance: Hundreds of people turned up at Hyde Park Corner mall to hear former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas launch his book After Dawn in August. The allusion to dawn was not missed, coming 18 months after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s “new dawn” state of the nation speech, which did so much to raise the hopes…Continue reading Entrepreneurial class should be recognised for what it has to offer
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LETTER: Ditch the race obsession to grow SA
By Geordin Hill-Lewis: I refer to Shawn Hagedorn’s analysis (“How the DA can regain momentum and lead the way to prosperity”, November 4 2019). An official opposition that “is sensitive, but not subservient to, racial politics” is exactly what SA needs. And, yes, if SA is to provide Southern Africa with a viable economic role…Continue reading LETTER: Ditch the race obsession to grow SA
LETTER: Growth depends on profit
By Fanie Brink 08 OCTOBER 2018 – 05:04 Business Day I am an agricultural economist with more than 40 years’ experience. I am also one of 30 economists who participate in the Netwerk24 Economist of the Year competition to predict the outcome of a couple of economic indicators, and therefore have to keep myself updated on current…Continue reading LETTER: Growth depends on profit
LETTER: Dithering abounds
25 FEBRUARY 2016 – 07:00 SHAWN Hagedorn managed to distil, most brilliantly, in not much more than 1,000 words, the conundrum that faces us in SA 22 years after the birth of our democracy (Malaise extends far beyond Zuma, February 17). My coffee went cold as I had to reread the piece just to immerse…Continue reading LETTER: Dithering abounds
South Africa: Cursed with abundant resources
21 JANUARY 2016 – 14:38 Much of the white vitriol critical of SA’s government is inspired by fat cats supping as the nation wobbles Biologists and political theorists concur: altruism is proportionate to shared genes. Brothers and sisters favour each other ahead of cousins. Racial biases are as natural, and as limiting, as stone tools.…Continue reading South Africa: Cursed with abundant resources