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23 May 2013
                       
 
 
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17 May 2013
 
 
Cyril Ramaphosa on key issues affecting the public and private sector
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
“We are living in interesting times, some say difficult times but for me, in hopeful times.” This is according to ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was talking at a client business...
 
 
15 Mar 2013
 
The NDP, Bobby Godsell and those R1m breakfasts
INSIGHT AFRICA
The irascible, smart and tough-minded Bobby Godsell, chairmen of Business Leadership SA, a couple of weeks ago called upon the business community to get behind the National Development Plan....
 
 
21 Feb 2013
 
Mining unrest putting South Africa’s pension funds at risk – Minister
LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENT
South Africa’s ongoing mining-industry unrest was putting the country’s pension funds at risk and it was critical that peace and stability be restored in the mining sector, Minerals Minister...
 
 
23 Jan 2013
 
In danger of being a failed state?
INSIGHT AFRICA
The last Insight which you received in early December was a lead-up to the ANC's important electoral and policy-making conference later in the month.  We focused in particular on the probable...
 
 
07 Nov 2012
 
Cynthia Carroll's resignation and Anglo American
INSIGHT AFRICA
Whatever the reasons, Cynthia Carroll’s resignation would inevitably be the subject of much speculation and also controversy.  And that there would be intense speculation about who her successor...
 
 
03 Oct 2012
 
SA: Statement by the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution, on the impact of Marikana on South Africa’s constitutional order (03/10/2012)
STATEMENT
The serious violations of fundamental constitutional rights that the Farlam Commission must investigate with regard to Marikana are, in fact, a common reality for far too many people who live in...
 
 
17 Sep 2012
 
DA: Statement by Helen Zille, Democratic Alliance Leader, asserts that South Africa needs a new economic consensus founded on education (17/09/2012)
STATEMENT
I have recently been reading about the American civil rights activist and politician, Barbara Jones, the first black women ever elected to Congress from the conservative Southern states. She was a...
 
 
11 Sep 2012
 
 
 
Daily podcast – September 11, 2012.
PODCAST
The World Food Programme (or WFP) is seeking $30-million to feed more than one-million people in Malawi facing severe shortages. This is a result of a disastrous fight that the former President of...
 
 
18 May 2012
 
Mend the Cracks
REAL ECONOMY: SANRAL LEADERSHIP
Who would be Koos Smit, the man selected acting CE at the embattled South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral), following the ill-timed, yet understandable, resignation of Nazir Alli....
 
 
08 Mar 2012
 
 
 
Daily podcast – March 8, 2012
PODCAST
Suspended national police chief Bheki Cele occasionally signed off on official documents from his deputies without scrutinising them, a board of inquiry into allegations of misconduct against him...
 
 
21 Feb 2012
 
 
 
Big business unveils ‘beyond advocacy’ plan for SA
BUSINESS LEADERSHIP
The new head of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), Thero Setiloane, has laid out his “beyond advocacy” vision for the organisation and its future engagements with government and other...
 
 
26 Jan 2012
 
 
 
Cosatu to intensify call for ban on business overlap in public service
Corruption Watch
In the run-up to the African National Congress’ (ANC’s) June policy conference, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) plans to lobby aggressively for a change to the current...
 
 
11 Nov 2011
 
 
 
Daily Podcast – November 11, 2011
PODCAST
Julius Malema has been suspended from the African National Congress Youth League for five years. He has to vacate his position as president of the organisation.
 
 
10 Nov 2011
 
Godsell says 'near zero' chance of mine nationalisation
MINING & POLITICS
The likelihood of South Africa’s mines being nationalised is “very close to zero”, former AngloGold Ashanti CEO Bobby Godsell said in an interview on Wednesday, the day before ANC Youth...
 
 
13 Jul 2011
 
 
 
Industry failures sow ‘terrible’ nationalisation seeds – Ramaphosa
MINE NATIONALISATION
Businessman and National Planning Commission (NPC) deputy chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa laid much of the blame for the current “ferment” around mine nationalisation at the door of the industry,...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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