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Aveng CEO Roger Jardine. Picture: FINANCIAL MAIL

LETTER: Shun corruption regardless of race

11 hour(s) ago

Corruption will only fall significantly when we denounce and report the corrupt regardless of whether they are black or white, politician or businessman, and regardless of which party they voted for

LETTER: Harm not exaggerated

APPREHENDED: A striking farm worker is arrested by police at De Doorns in the Western Cape. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
11 hour(s) ago

Wanton destruction is minor when compared with the destroyed perception of the international business community

LETTER: The BEE conundrum

Agang SA leader Mamphela Ramphele. Picture: PUXLEY MAKGATHO
11 hour(s) ago

For Dr Mamphela Ramphele who, by her own admission, has benefited by some R50m from BEE deals (some authorities suggest the amount is closer to R500m) to now call for the policy to be abandoned is a risky strategy indeed

LETTER: Quotas are shaming

11 hour(s) ago

Telford Vice clearly has a bee in his bonnet about racial quotas

LETTER: Tell us more, Sanral

Sanral communications manager Vusi Mona. Picture: MARTIN RHODES
11 hour(s) ago

Sanral cannot of course be held responsible for decisions of the Presidency, but since the amendment act is in respect of the principal act which governs the existence and functions of the roads agency, it must presumably have a view

LETTER: Variation on a classic

TAKING THE AIR: Gabor Kovacs smokes an e-cigarette, which his shop sells at Camden in London. Picture: REUTERS
11 hour(s) ago

Gabi Thesing’s report gives rise to a variation

LETTER: Hold Jim accountable

National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa general secretary Irvin Jim briefing media on its central commitee meeting in Newtown, Johannesburg on Thursday. Picture: PUXLEY MAKGATHO
11 hour(s) ago

Surely there is a case for Mr Jim being charged with treason, as an investment that would have secured and created jobs and much-needed exports, has been scared away

Picture: THINKSTOCK

LETTER: The song remains the same

We all have a complaint sooner or later and want the Organisation to sort it out — and we all know how the Organisation helps us nowadays

LETTER: Our selfish unions

Picture: REUTERS
1 day(s) ago

We have the unions to thank for the fact no serious international investor would consider South Africa

LETTER: Rely on experts

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1 day(s) ago

We live in a highly specialised world that has been made possible by the achievements of science and technology

LETTER: Peters out of touch

Transport Minister Dipuo Peters. Picture: ARNOLD PRONTO
1 day(s) ago

I would like to agree with a contributor to Udo Carelse’s stand-in morning show who stated that the problem with our politicians is that if they repeat the same mantra often enough, they will believe that it is true … that there is nothing wrong with our administration of taxpayers’ money, our education systems, our health systems and, of course, our public transport systems, etc

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The Third Umpire

Businessman Roger Jardine, for his candid summation of SA’s public and private sector collusion and corruption becoming part of the fabric of society and being the biggest post-apartheid business scandal.

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New NPA head Mxolisi Nxasana. With the ink barely dry on his contract, the first thing he does is appeal against last week’s reinstatement of charges against Richard Mdluli. Let the legal games begin again.

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Former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa, for daring to say this: “We are a government, and placing the blame on the past, apartheid, race, and other external factors does not wash anymore.” Brave words indeed.

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