EDITORIAL: Cosatu’s struggle to stay relevant
The Congress of South African Trade Unions finds itself under pressure from all quarters — including the governmentEDITORIAL: Long live the ‘Arab Spring’
It is reassuring that the spirit of the ‘Arab Spring’ is being upheld in Tunisia and Egypt, despite considerable obstaclesFINANCIAL TIMES: Mali will need much help
Mali will need some help fixing its political system as well as hunting down jihadists in their caves
EDITORIAL: The truth can cost you
Although freedom of speech is protected by the constitution, this does not mean we are immune to the consequences of exercising that freedom irresponsibly
EDITORIAL: Fix for education not quite as simple as that
Does the need to improve the quality of education provided by state schools mean that teaching should be declared an ‘essential service’?
THE AUSTRALIAN: The cybercrime problem
It is a daunting danger, with experts convinced that malware may increasingly be able to wage warfare by strategically crippling vital infrastructure
EDITORIAL: Tuk-tuks offer much
Fear of minibus taxi operators, murky law and municipal pettiness must not be allowed to hinder the flourishing tuk-tuk taxi businesses
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Bad time for defence cuts
Israel had extremely good reasons to launch air strikes against a convoy of lorries on the Syrian-Lebanese border, presumed to be carrying advanced weapons to Hezbollah militia
EDITORIAL: A government with something to hide
At first blush, the use of the National Key Points Act to justify expenditure of an obscene amount of public money on Nkandla , and to avoid having to respond to the entirely justified outcry, seems a stroke of genius
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Don’t waste the opportunity
Senate hearings on stricter gun controls are scheduled to begin before a divided Congress and a nation agonising over how to prevent more carnage
EDITORIAL: Social crisis in the making
Unemployed South Africans have reached the point where they will do just about anything to get a job
EDITORIAL: Kenyatta vs Odinga all over again
The last time Kenya had an election, it required the intervention of eminent Africans and the international community to pull the country back from the brink of disaster
EDITORIAL: Housing’s top end linked to bottom
It is seldom appreciated how interconnected the bottom and top ends of South Africa’s housing market are
DAWN: A worrying drone policy
The memo leaked this week that lays out the legal basis for US drone strikes has attracted attention in the USEDITORIAL: Construction in for a caning
A common competitive transgression is ‘cover pricing’, and the fact that authorities regard it as a contravention came as a surprise to many in the construction industry
EDITORIAL: Vision still rooted in interventionism
This year’s Mining Indaba follows an annus horribilis for the industry in South Africa, and a sense of foreboding overshadows the conference
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Real-life DNA detectives
The discovery of the skeleton of Richard III beneath a Leicester car park trumps any work of fiction
EDITORIAL: Clawing back trust of mining world
A good place to look for a mining plan that could work in Africa lies, ironically, in the latest policy document of the embattled opposition in Zimbabwe
EDITORIAL: Giving is bigger than the gift
Mining billionaire Patrice Motsepe throws down the gauntlet to the rich by giving away half of his fortune
FINANCIAL TIMES: Bigger battle after Timbuktu
There is a depressing familiarity about events unfolding in Mali
EDITORIAL: SA sold a cat in a plastic bag
Some measures got legislated and it was, in some ways, a valuable learning experience on the pros and cons of government intervention
DAWN: YouTube block continues
What began as an outrageous situation is starting to feel as though it might become a permanent bar on citizens’ rights to access the internet
EDITORIAL: Voters clearly have different priorities
Is the African National Congress likely to face any consequences for its actions and omissions?
EDITORIAL: Address the real causes
THE threat of a real exchange rate problem appears to be rising, and the question, as always, is what to do about it
EDITORIAL: Whistling in the investment wind
President Jacob Zuma’s words contrast greatly with South Africa’s reality
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Futuristic space oddities
In a couple of years’ time, spacecraft the size of hikers’ backpacks may be buzzing around the earth looking out for asteroids
THE FINANCIAL TIMES: Zombie retailers not missed
An army of 'zombie' companies in the UK has kept capital from shifting to more productive areas of the economy, where new jobs could be created
NEW ZEALAND HERALD: Is Facebook starting to fail?
The number of UK Facebook users fell by more than 600,000 last month, leading many to speculate that the social media behemoth has hit a saturation point
The Third Umpire
Rev Barney Pityana , for noting South Africans should take responsibility for SA’s failures, such as the state of education and “pervasive … corruption”, because we elected leaders without vision and basic competence.
View our verdict below, or vote to see what our readers think:
Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi, for firing an official who accepted payment and a car from companies doing business with the department. He said he’d root out corruption in his office — he’s off to a good start.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi , for not backing down on regulating logistics fees for pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesalers, so as to better control medicine prices and give consumers a better deal.
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