IN MARCH 1997, then justice minister Dullah Omar was an eager participant in a welcoming party at Cape Town International Airport for the returning fraudster and eminent ANC activist…
In March 1997, Minister of Justice, Dullah Omar, was an eager participant at a welcoming party at the Cape Town International Airport for the returning fraudster and eminent ANC activist, Alan Boesak.
Like Burmese stateswoman Ang San Suu Kyi, Thuli Madonsela, a member of the African National Congress (ANC), deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for her steadfast and courageous stand in support of the principle of accountable government.
On 1 November 2011 in an address to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, President Zuma expressed his disquiet at the fact that “the courts” appeared to have assumed a role “above” that of the elected repres
How does one make an industrialist, if the industrialist does not make himself?
What are national borders other than barriers to keep others out? Only the Communist countries have ever erected barriers to keep people in.
Laws made by tyrants are obeyed only out of fear, and that is no legitimate reason for obedience. The small state of Iceland, almost a city state, overcame the financial crisis of 2008 because it took the opposite course to that of the United States: they allowed the over-extended banks to
Anatole Kaletsky is the Principal Economic Commentator and Associate Editor of that venerable publication, The Times of London. It is evident that neither his exalted status nor the pedigree of the newspaper that publicises his opinions provides assurance that the views expressed are dependable.
It now appears to Kaletsky, although
We are told that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico may represent the end of the free market system: from now on there will be regulation to govern every significant commercial activity that might hold some potentially hazardous consequence for the planet. This assessment is almost certainly correct, but
Amid the frenzy of blame leveled against the “capitalist system” for the near-collapse of the world’s financial apparatus in 2008, came a sorrowful confession from Josef Ackermann, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank. With much publicity he proclaimed that he no longer believed in the self-healing capacity of the free
