Bronwyn Nortje: When EFF had a go at the Working on Fire programme it clearly did not consider why these low-wage, low-skill jobs exist
THE DAILY woe about the strength of the dollar against all other currencies is hugely overplayed in SA.
This is for two reasons: SA exports globally priced products and receives dollars in return; and it imports manufactured goods primarily from the European Union and pays the invoices in euros, which currency has weakened against the rand (from more than R15 in 2013 to just less than R13 as I write).
It’s not all doom and gloom.
Ron Hobbs
Zimbali
Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene. He is obliged to remain upbeat in his public pronouncements on the economy, but it is encouraging that he is apparently calling a spade a spade when addressing the Cabinet.
Group Five CEO Eric Vemer is confident the group can defend itself against the latest charges it faces for tender collusion, but shareholders might be happier if this whole sad saga had been put behind them by now.
Proteas one-day captain AB de Villiers, who must be one very relieved man after his team overcame the “chokers” hoodoo to thrash Sri Lanka by nine wickets in the quarterfinals of the Cricket World Cup in Australia.
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