Business Days Stephan Hofstatter reports, Farmers union AgriSA held an emergency meeting with Department of Rural Development and Land Reform director-general Thozi Gwanya yesterday to discuss his departments proposals that productive farmland be nationalised the plan moots speeding up land reforms by amending the constitution to turn all productive land into
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is attempting to do what couldn't be done at the international climate change conference in Copenhagen last December: Transfer large sums of wealth from developed countries to developing ones in the name of climate change, says the Heritage Foundation.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the IMF, said
Business Day’s Karima Brown reports that Jacob Zuma recently stated that “a team drawn from outside the Cabinet would help to determine the future of SA’s state- owned enterprises… [in order to] provide an objective review”
An objective review of state owned “enterprises” is a welcome move and should be applauded
Despite similarities in their histories and demographic makeup, Texas and California differ greatly in terms of their respective approaches to public policy. With its low taxes and “hands-off” economic policies, Texas’ economy is booming and the state is experiencing a population inflow. Meanwhile, California’s recent experience has been quite the
At the heart of President Obama's drive to rein in health costs is a proposal for federal review and regulation of health insurance premiums, with a new agency empowered to block excessive rate increases, says the New York Times.
State officials are leery of the proposal, which raises a host of
