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ANC wants 30-million grant recipients to get free basic services
2+ hour, 41+ min ago (577+ words) The ANC wants the almost 30-million South Africans who receive social grants to be automatically added to the indigent list of people who receive free basic services. Instead of applying to receive free water, electricity and sanitation services every year,…...
All Blacks wary of Springbok backlash in Cape Town
5+ hour, 11+ min ago (508+ words) All Blacks coach Dave Rennie said he was wary of a Springbok backlash in the second Test in Cape Town after his side fought back to down the home team 33-16 at Ellis Park on Saturday night. South Africa had dominated…...
ANN BERNSTEIN | If Joburg cannot be fixed, can we fix South Africa?
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (649+ words) South Africa cannot restore growth, expand opportunity and attract investment while Johannesburg continues its disastrous decline. Preventing the collapse of the city must become a national priority. Cities are central to a country’s growth and development. Johannesburg remains the heart…...
PETER BRUCE | Let parliament choose new NPA, Idac chiefs
16+ hour, 33+ min ago (386+ words) I watched TV news footage on Friday of the appearance in the Pretoria magistrate’s court of much of the leadership of the South African Police Service’s crime intelligence division with some joy. The group were charged with fraud and corruption…...
RAVI PILLAY | SAA’s entire model needs changing, not just the pilot
10+ hour, 46+ min ago (970+ words) South Africans learnt on August 14 that acting SAA CEO Matshela Seshibe had been placed on immediate special leave while the board conducted an internal process. We should not rush to judgment. The board has said its decision is not a…...
PERCY MABANDU | History repeats itself as right-wing groups form farcical pact
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (374+ words) South African history has a perverse propensity to repeat itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. This week’s media spectacle of a grinning Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, founder of the March and March movement, standing alongside a beaming Kallie Kriel, AfriForum’s CEO,…...
LUNCEDO MTWENTWE | We need to bridge the provincial divide for SMEs
16+ hour, 31+ min ago (662+ words) The recent unemployment figures released by Stats SA are still playing on my mind. I wasn’t expecting the national rate of 33.6% to fall significantly, but I was surprised by the extraordinary disparity in unemployment rates between provinces. In the second…...
Dry taps, empty coffers: Joburg Water owes contractors R500m
16+ hour, 27+ min ago (822+ words) Johannesburg Water owes an estimated R500m to contractors, which experts say is directly due to revenue from ratepayers being diverted to fund other parts of the municipality, such as salaries. For some contractors and workers, the consequences have been devastating. Selina…...
HOT LUNCH | Climbing Kilimanjaro, CEO-style
16+ hour, 35+ min ago (856+ words) Peter van Binsbergen is about to climb Kilimanjaro and, with 10 days to go, explains that he has deliberately done very little training. “You shouldn’t train. You should be unfit, so you walk slowly,” the CEO of BMW Group South Africa…...
221: from Springbok history to bottle of wine
16+ hour, 37+ min ago (588+ words) Some South African traditions need little introduction: a Saturday afternoon game, a table loaded with good food, family arguing over the score — and somewhere nearby, a bottle being opened. For the Van der Merwe family, who live on a wine…...