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The world’s richest ‘not for profit’ organisation

23 April 2010

Opposition politicians reacted angrily when they first learned that Chancellor House, an African National Congress (ANC) investment vehicle, had secured a 25% interest in Hitachi Power Africa. Why are they so angry? Here’s a brief history of events to ‘cl

Taking with both hands – taxation by stealth

09 April 2010

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2010/11 budget speech left all who heard it with a warm fuzzy feeling. The so-called sin taxes (alcohol and tobacco) were hiked and taxes on fuel upped by 25c/litre, but overall Joe Average didn’t fare too badly. Gordhan

The problem with affirmative action

19 March 2010

Affirmative action wasn’t ‘invented’ in South Africa. According to wikipedia.org the phrase was coined in the United States to refer to “policies that take race, ethnicity, physical disability or sex into consideration in an attempt to promote equal oppor

Showing the finger to the blue light gang

05 March 2010

South Africa finally has a media export. Google the phrase ‘blue light gang’ and you’ll find no less than 68 500 mentions of a term synonymous with untoward behaviour by the country’s elite police and VIP protection units. In the years since the country’s

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