COLUMNIST Mandy Wiener has written an opinion piece for News24 entitled: 'The case for lifting the cigarette ban' Her central thesis is that the 'prohibition on smoking tobacco merely drives the practice underground'. While Wiener appears to grasp...
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Rupert Covid-19 donations debunked or not?
NEWS that former apartheid financier and bankster, Johann Rupert was 'donating' R1 billion to small business relief via the President's so-called Solidarity fund, raised the ire of many critics who argued that the donation was in fact a loan. The controversy recalls similar prevarication issued b...
Fact check: Rupert’s Alleged Opposition to Apartheid debunked
THERE is no evidence that the Ruperts were during the 1980s, for all intents and purposes, in favour of anything more than apartheid euphemism and cant — the shallow transformation which characterised PW Botha's much-vaunted tricameral Parliament and which for a short time, allowed for sepa...
Johann Rupert’s latest apartheid gaffe
TWO YEARS ago we reported on Johann Rupert's Magnus Gaffe in which he claimed variously to have been a key figure within the anti-apartheid movement whilst under the whip of Magnus Malan. This week, we can only watch aghast as the CEO of Remgro, Richement and Reinet (R as in Rands figure large in...
Johann Rupert’s Magnus Gaffe
IN AN INTERVIEW published by Business Day/Financial Mail and written up by Carlos Amato, aptly entitled:'Johann Rupert on being cast as the poster boy of 'white monopoly capital' the financier and inheritor of apartheid billions, appears anxious to recast himself as a key member of the anti-apart...
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