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Let us take South Africa from the corrupt and maybe it will endure and survive
13th November 2020 Last Wednesday after the Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni, delivered his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) in parliament, I reflected on... →
A plan to keep the state broken and reforms stillborn
12th November 2020 President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recovery plan had to respond to a very difficult situation. The country was in trouble before Covid-19 — an economy... →
Economic recovery plan is a vague mishmash of nice-to-haves
11th November 2020 One gets the impression that when they were writing their exams, the drafters of the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan presented to... →
Keep calm, but beware the Expropriation Bill
10th November 2020 Keep calm and carry on. If the weight of commentary around the Expropriation Bill could be summed up in a phrase, that would probably be it. Among... →
Ramaphosa, give us some drama – The Ramaphosa administration has failed to entertain us in any way
9th November 2020 MR President, I am so disappointed in you. I guess it’s a case of who readily believes, will be readily disappointed. I am my own worst enemy. I... →
Donald Trump’s ‘foreign policy’: Fact-checking US$166bn China-Africa trade claim
By: Africa Check 6th November 2020 In an October 2020 online article, South Africa’s Mail & Guardian said that while US president Donald Trump’s mission was to make America great,... →
WYSIATI /’VE-SI-HA-TI/ – JP Landman
5th November 2020 Psychologist Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel for economics for his work on how we make decisions. A common mistake he identified is WYSIATI –... →
Cultivating a culture of young entrepreneurs in South Africa
4th November 2020 With economic disruption worldwide brought on by pandemic lockdowns, the future looks bleak for young job seekers unless a culture of... →
Donald Trump’s ‘foreign policy’: Fact-checking US$166bn China-Africa trade claim
By: Africa Check 3rd November 2020 In an October 2020 online article, South Africa’s Mail & Guardian said that while US president Donald Trump’s mission was to make America great,... →
No evidence nearly 7,500 children die from ‘hunger’ each year in South Africa
By: Africa Check 2nd November 2020 “Nearly 7,500 children under the age of five die annually in South Africa as a direct result of hunger,” says an article published by the South... →
