DAVOS: DECEIT OR DELUSION?
South African Bulletin Feb 5, 2016 Created on Friday, 05 February 2016 12:33 | Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2016 12:33 | Written by Henk | Press Release: Switzerland – 23 January 2016. “The…
Economy
AS THE DECAY SETS IN …
International Bulletin April 15, 2016 E-Pos The dictionary defines an economy as “any practical adjustment, organization or administration of affairs or resources, especially of industrial or financial affairs of the state.” “Economic determinism” declares that…
Pay Back the Money … or we’ll huff and we’ll puff
25/08/2014 Julius Malema and his cohorts in the National Assembly didn’t quite blow the House down on Thursday last week during President’s Question Time. They disrupted parliament by demanding that Jacob Zuma pay back…
Mining, oil and gas sectors: legislative and regulatory drift and a scary audit
21/08/2014 Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi didn’t calm nerves last week during his address to the third annual Mining Lekgotla. The minister is overseeing two significant regulatory processes causing anxiety in these sectors, namely a…
How to rebuild South Africa’s economy after the ANC is gone
By Mike Smith 26th of April 2016 One of the most sobering books any South African can ever read is The Lexus and the olive tree: Understanding Globalisation by Thomas L. Friedman (1999). The book…
How the mines must racially transform – Mining Charter
Department of Mineral Resources | 18 April 2016 Draft document sets out stringent race quotas in terms of ownership, procurement and employment REVIEWED BROAD BASED BLACK -ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT CHARTER FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING AND…
Mozambique, South African firms eye $6bn gas pipeline
9:52 CAT | 23 Apr 2016 0 CommentsPrintShare Mozambique and South African companies interested in building a gas pipeline from the Rovuma Basin in the far north of Mozambique to South Africa’s Gauteng province began…
Decline of major SA union rattles mining sector
Credit: AP File picture: Denis Farrell, AP BUSINESS/NEWS / 19 April 2016 at 13:00pm By: Paul Burkhardt and Mike Cohen Johannesburg – The decline of South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is eroding one of…
Personal experiences: Why South Africa is failing?
By Dean McCleland in Current Affairs, Opinion Pieces January 8, 2016 0 Comment I could dwell on all South Africa’s major ills such as an incompetent ANC or Zuma’s single-handed attempt to detail the South…
South Africa on “The Road to Nowhere”
By Dean McCleland in Current Affairs, Opinion Pieces February 11, 2016 0 Comment The ANC could compliment the citizens of South Africa for their forbearance if it was “The Long and Winding Road.” In that…