EDITORIAL: Crisis needs urgent attention
Country needs to take heed of International Monetary Fund’s warningsEDITORIAL: Outrageous move at crisis-hit Eskom
You wouldn’t even run a spaza shop the way the Eskom board and its shareholder, the government, is running the utility
EDITORIAL: Prepare for more intense volatility
The best thing to do in uncertain markets is to sit tight and avoid panic — but brace oneself in case it gets worse
EDITORIAL: Fix health system to avoid lawsuits
If criminal syndicates including state-employed doctors, lawyers and justice department officials are conspiring to milk the system, they must be flushed out and jailed
EDITORIAL: Sacu formula needs revision
Concerns about the distortions Sacu’s revenue-sharing formula creates are mounting — and rightly so
EDITORIAL: Stop sending mixed messages
Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana should take note that land reform is a serious and emotional matter and not something for silly brinkmanship
EDITORIAL: New boundaries won’t fix councils
Political will is needed to stop the cronyism that plagues municipal appointments
EDITORIAL: Investors daunted by BEE confusion
Issue is another on a growing list of uncertainties that are making investing in SA unattractive
EDITORIAL: Public sector wage hike a test for ANC
Significant growth in the head count and pay packets have not been accompanied by improvements in service delivery
EDITORIAL: More tax hikes on the cards
It is hard to believe Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s assurances, he had already made it clear he will implement a ‘structural’ increase in tax revenue
EDITORIAL: Cloak-and-dagger privatisation
There is still no clarity on the promised ‘sales of nonstrategic state assets’ to fund Eskom’s considerable capital expenditure requirements
EDITORIAL: To succeed, Nene needs support
The ANC government must recognise the urgency of the situation
EDITORIAL: Politics undermine state institutions
Political interference in cases of disciplinary action against public servants and employees of parastatals is a growing problem in SA
EDITORIAL: Core problem in Greece remains
The core economic problem still has to be to be addressed — the inability of Greece to repay its debt
EDITORIAL: Investors balk at unpredictable law
Many policies are being formulated in response to populist pressure, which is guaranteed to increase uncertainty and discourage foreign investment
EDITORIAL: Sanctions don’t always work
The EU has probably seen through the shambles the MDC has become, and decided to hedge its bets on a post-Mugabe Zanu (PF) government
EDITORIAL: Little rationale for state drug firm
SA has a natural advantage in the extraction of high-quality fluorspar at a relatively low price, but lags behind China and others in terms of production
EDITORIAL: Ambitious but misguided
The Film and Publications Board is not supposed to act as a prepublication censorEDITORIAL: Slow off the digital mark
Regulatory, political and leadership failures in the digital realm have left SA eating the rest of the world’s dust
EDITORIAL: Danger of racial profiling
Worcester policing forum needs to do away with decision to issue 'work-seeker reference cards' and find better ways of keeping its neighbourhood safe
EDITORIAL: Long march to equality not over
As deplorable as recent incidents of crude racism in SA are, the reason they have got so much attention is because they are no longer the norm
EDITORIAL: Deafening silence on SARS panel
The way the SARS debacle has been handled so far has reflected a failure of transparency and accountability
EDITORIAL: Still a fragile democracy
The structural impediment to Lesotho consolidating its democracy is the country’s economic dependence on South Africa
EDITORIAL: The beginning of the end
Union federation Cosatu has become the perfect vehicle to political status and enrichment for unionists with such ambitions
EDITORIAL: Well done, now do better
Power stations’ performance seem to be deteriorating rather than improving and that needs to change
EDITORIAL: Wrong for the job
The wrong people are being appointed to senior positions for all the wrong reasons
EDITORIAL: Economic damage control
Growth projection of as little as 1% — based on electricity constraints — highlights the importance of labour peace and tackling the crisis at Eskom
EDITORIAL: Nene fails to give crucial details
No mention in the budget of how two huge future financial commitments the government has made on our behalf — national health insurance and nuclear procurement — will be funded
EDITORIAL: SSA needs to be more open
State security department and SSA give us the impression that they are exempt from accounting to the public even when it is necessary
EDITORIAL: Double standards
ANC mirrors the same EFF tactics Deputy Public Works Minister Jeremy Cronin calls Nazi behaviour
EDITORIAL: A welcome new rival to JSE
New stock exchange could shake incumbents and prompt them to upgrade and improve their own offerings
EDITORIAL: Scrambled accountability
The battle for parliamentary accountability continues but least the security apparatus is finally owning up to its part in the signal jamming drama
EDITORIAL: SA must capitalise on disinflation
Businesses and labour unions should be more responsive when it comes to the pricing of goods and services, and that of labour
EDITORIAL: Blackouts fuel pessimism
There is a message for policy makers who focus on industrial policy at the expense of making support for mining a priority
EDITORIAL: A clause by any other name
The brain-teaser clause contained in the original version of the draft Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill fooled hardly anyone
The Third Umpire
Now, was that so hard? President Jacob Zuma finally answered the million-dollar question on Wednesday, although it’s a pity his reply was so disingenuous. That’s not what the public protector recommended, sir.
National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete, whose bias was never so clear as when Zuma ignored her request that the opposition be allowed to raise a point of order. Where are the White Shirts when you need them?
Public Investment Corporation CEO Daniel Matjila. The state asset manager’s new approach of linking up with strategic partners that will jointly control and manage the companies it invests in sounds like a winner.
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