FREEDOM DAY is a monument to majority rule under an inclusive democratic system that relegated previous attempts to segregate the franchise according to skin colour. We no longer have to look over our shoulders for the special branch, nor worry ab...
Category: Economy
Organised crime, Eskom monopoly, De Ruyter en Swart.
ALARMING accounts of several crime syndicates operating within Eskom have arrived on the heels of similar findings made by the Zondo 'Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State'. Judge Raymond Zondo's investigation...
Dear Mr Gordhan, Eskom is a ‘public bad’, not a ‘public good’
IN A PIECE published in the Daily Maverick, Public Enterprises Minister, Pravin Gordhan appears to respond to an earlier piece written by myself and published here and in the Cape Argus. The example of Telkom deregulation which I have raised, on more than one occasion, is most certainly taken ver...
BRICS war criminals seek to impose ‘reserve currency’ from above
EVER since the term was coined by Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill in 2001, as an acronym for countries, which were 'deemed to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development', the BRICS grouping has been little more than, a disparate think-tank of dictators, oligarchs,...
SA Astonishing failure to plan transition away from ICE
EVEN if there was no war in Ukraine and no embargo against Russian oil and gas, South Africa would find itself in a pretty pickle, forced to import fuel directly. It is not just our strategic fuel reserves which have been plundered, but our capacity to refine crude in the face of a global transit...
Shell Wild Coast : The struggle against whaling has come full circle
SOUTH AFRICA comprehensively banned the practice of whaling in 1979. The campaign to 'save the whales' is one of our oldest conservation movements, predating the later environmental justice movement which emerged during the 1980s. This week, Royal Dutch Shell was given the go-ahead to invade trad...