Entrepreneurs have recycling in the (school) bag
For decades, the children of poor families have trekked long distances, often on badly lit roads, carrying their school books in plastic shopping bags. Not so any more for some, writes Penny Haw
How the DA rewards its enemies
National spokesman Marius Redelinghuys’s online diatribe raises questions about the DA’s apparent dearth of potential leaders, writes Gareth van Onselen
The fatal flaw in the anti-tobacco lobby’s thesis
Unlike health despots, people who value facts and freedom should encourage what they regard as healthy living as resolutely as they defend the rights of those who disagree, writes Leon Louw
Administrators head back to offices as football players return to spotlight
The story of larger-than-life administrators dominating acres of newspaper space is as old as the … pyramids, writes Mninawa Ntloko
VRROOM WITH A VIEW: An S-Class for the driver
The Mercedes S63 AMG Coupe is the Alex Parker Car of the Year, chosen with no consideration for cost or availability
Old racial patterns remain firmly in place
Real conversation on race will be difficult as divides remain deep, but given costs of failure to do so, it will be worth the effort, writes Steven Friedman
Shedding of staff just adds to Eskom and SARS woes
At Eskom the executive shedding of the past year is quite clearly taking its toll; at SARS it is not evident yet, but it surely will be soon, writes Hilary Joffe
STREET DOGS: Hedge to fund
Michel Pireu relates story of how hedge, setting a limit to a field, became what it is today: largely unregulated pool of private capital
THE INSIDER: Give a dog a bad name and it will perform
A white robot dog named Zuma ‘to go home to Nkandla’ is a strange scene indeed
THE INSIDER: SA must find new way to communicate in the dark
As South Africans begin to live with frequent power cuts, a new vocabulary seems necessary
Previous columns
Flouting of competition laws is Apple’s worm
Companies that flout free-market norms should face not just the censure of the courts but should be called out for what they are by all of society, writes Trudi Makhaya
Foibles of picking a forecaster
Who can you take seriously when it comes to forecasting? writes Michel Pireu
On white privilege
Both sides are guilty of a lack of empathy and of using uninformed arguments to further their own cause, writes Gareth van Onselen
THE INSIDER: SA must find new way to communicate in the dark
As South Africans begin to live with frequent power cuts, a new vocabulary seems necessary
ON THE MONEY: Fidentia decision a perversion of justice
‘Actual’ loss means destroying your investors’ wealth, most obviously by stealing it, writes Stuart Theobald
UNEMBARGOED: K-word betrays subliminal racism in society
Subliminal racism is what makes so many of us comfortable with unequal opportunities from birth, and make dishonest assumptions that playing field is level when it is not, writes Songezo Zibi
African petrostates must manage financial resources better
African oil states did not learn the lesson from the 2008 commodity price crisis, writes Dianna Games
New rouble crisis unlikely, but we cannot relax
SA’s leaders need to do all they can to affirm and support economy’s long-term resilience, writes Gavin Keeton
Wallowing in pessimism dishonours heroic legacy
Aubrey Matshiqi was struck by what seemed to be attempt to remember Madiba as a way of forgetting social, political and leadership malaise great man left behind when he died
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