JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THIS week, Statistics South Africa announced that South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to a record high 35.3% in the last quarter of year 2021. This was an increase…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
AS somebody who posts often on social media, I have noticed that there are many South Africans who do not understand how destabilizing the Ukraine-Russia war is to…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last week, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said, “There are too many regulations in this country that are unduly complicated,…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
POLITICIANS tend to intentionally avoid telling the truth to the people. Understanding why politicians are liars is not rocket science. If they tell the truth they will lose…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
A LOT of what I studied when I was a young undergraduate student at Rhodes University and University of Cape Town, had to do with the field of…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
LAST year, I studied Governance and Ethics at Wits University. The objective of the course is to equip current and future leaders on how to manage organizations ethically.…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
ONE of the obvious characteristics of labour unions is that most of them have zero understanding of economics. This is not only in South Africa, unions in other…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
WE begin the year 2022 in an unpleasant situation as a country. There is a great deal that needs to be attended to urgently, to reverse the trends…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FOR much of the last six years, I have reflected a great deal about South Africa’s black economic empowerment (BEE) policies. What I have tried to understand is…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
JOHN Adams, was the President of the United States of America (USA) from 1797 to 1801. He once remarked, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our…