WHETHER it is Abalimi Bezekhaya in Philippi, Tyisa Nabanye @ Erf 81 in Tamboerskloof, or Gaia Waldorf & Oude Molen Farm in Pinelands, all of the City's urban permaculture projects providing much needed employment, organic produce and sustainability are under threat from developers. Urban agricult...

MASSIVE state intervention involving wholesale expropriation of land without compensation, centralisation of power, a command economy, a cult of personality surrounding a self-proclaimed commander-in-chief. The kind of rhetoric that gets people riled up, most recently at a debate on the economy b...

IMAGINE if our President were to announce that he had a solution to our energy crisis. From tomorrow we will start burning Platinum to make Electricity. Would you support a costly programme, with only 1% efficiency, and a huge waste problem? This is precisely what the Pressurised Light Water Reac...

SHOULD South Africa “undo Mandela’s economic deals”? Is Mandela’s economic miracle a chimera? Political economist Patrick Bond certainly thinks so, unfortunately alongside other critics of the Mandela era, he also appears unable to explain exactly what those compromises were and how Mandela himse...

WHAT is more embarrassing than Kohler-Barnard tweeting about PW Botha? SANEF and the Minister of Justice supporting the career of PW Botha at Naspers. Both parties (Justice and Naspers) have acknowledged papers served in a case before the Equality Court EC19/2015. The case has been brought in ter...

FOR TWO decades, South Africa's largest media group, avoided responsibility for apartheid, deflected newsroom criticism, gagged journalists and engaged in a dirty-tricks cover-up which would result in a massive courtroom fraud. The group, which includes Media24 and Multichoice now faces questions...