Day: April 30, 2015

Georgia Republican Senator Johnny Isakson is demanding that South Africa must meet with Agoa’s eligibility requirements under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) to remain an eligible sub-Saharan African country. According to a report in Business Day (24 April) he wants a review of South Africa’s eligibility, the

Professor Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in a way, has extended the lease of life of the empirically discredited ideology of socialism/communism and its various permutations, such as a developmental state, state capitalism, state welfarism and dirigiste state.

The definitive central thesis of the book – bringing about