Author: Temba A Nolutshungu

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Getting our crime crisis under control means starting at the top

It is quite clear that when career criminals see people in high places acting as though they are above the law and blatantly pursuing criminal activities without repercussions, they conclude that their own conduct is acceptable. Regrettably, many impressionable youths perceive such people as role models. Thus, the crime situation is further exacerbated.

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Liberty is indivisible

In his book South Africa’s War Against Capitalism, published in 1989, Professor Williams had the following advice for South Africans, “Now – in order to promote tranquillity, dignity for the individual, and prosperity for all – South Africa’s people must strengthen its beleaguered market forces, and declare war against centralised government power.”

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The true state of disaster: Policymakers infected with inertia and the unemployed with lost hope

Given the massive number of unemployed people in South Africa, large and small employers should be able to hire the long-term unemployed on an exempt basis. Labour unions would probably object to a blanket exemption so government could limit the employment of exempt workers to small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) that generally account for the greatest slice of job creation at the unskilled and semi-skilled level.

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