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Catastrophic jobless rate warrants institution of state of emergency
SA’s unemployment rate is so catastrophic that a state of emergency should be declared.
25 October 2017
SA’s unemployment rate is so catastrophic that a state of emergency should be declared.
There are three unrelated sets of control — on taxis, foreign exchange and credit — which expose a pervasive problem.
IT IS worse than we thought. Much worse. So bad, in fact, that the state attorney has resorted to the sinister concealment from the nation of vital information.
Exporting coal to Newcastle — that’s what Eskom proposes. The coal-to-Newcastle idiom arose because England’s Newcastle prospered for centuries by exporting coal.
IF YOU tell a big lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually believe it,” observed Adolf Hitler’s propagandist, Joseph Goebbels.
This is my last of 220 weekly and biweekly columns. When first asked to contribute 600-word opinions, I thought it would be easy.
If you want to understand the government’s economic policy, don’t go away. It works like this: your GPS says you are 200km from your destination.
President Jacob Zuma is right, we need radical economic transformation. The reason is simple.
What is it with Leon Louw and his columns trashing estimates of global inequality,” asks Roger Southall (Oxfam rant a Louw point, May 3).
To understand what the trendy left racists who dominate land policy discourse have in mind, imagine a post-apartheid mixed marriage couple who buy neighbouring properties.