Editorials
8.9.2018 08:40 am
Zondo must be firm with the Guptas
The public are tired of hearing how different rules are applied to the Guptas. South Africans are restless.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo finds himself between a rock and a hard place at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.
Zondo must be firm with the Guptas
The public are tired of hearing how different rules are applied to the Guptas. South Africans are restless.
Columns
Jaundiced Eye: Poor Moyane must be so disappointed in Massone
He must have been dismayed by the performance last week of Bain & Company’s managing partner in South Africa.
Columns
Orchids and Onions – Nando’s not chicken in deflating egos
A huge fail for your billboard outside the Wanderers featuring the name ‘Rabada’, Web Africa. Speed over to collect your Onion.
Editorials
It is the duty of government to keep people safe
There are many other government buildings in a similar, or worse, state all over the country. And yet nothing seems to get done.
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Use overseas pros to investigate Steinhoff and its ilk
We should ask foreign governments to loan us people with the expertise to help in the investigations into this sort of white-collar business disaster.
Columns
Brazil and Lula’s road to hell, paved with good intentions
Rouseff’s Operation Car Wash, which targets both corrupt politicians and businesspeople who buy them up, has brought hope but destroyed Lula.
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Questions remain over Vincent Smith and Bosasa
Smith definitely has questions to answer about his relationship with Bosasa, a company which does billions of rands of business with the government.
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Ramaphosa is facing his biggest test
The problems the country faces are deep and serious. Now, he must make unpopular decisions – like cutting the civil service.
Columns
Ramaphosa is playing the long game
We should not blame him for keeping certain Zuma adherents in his Cabinet. He knows their time is coming – in 2019 when he starts his own term of office.
Columns
The rise in human trafficking must be curbed
Government will launch task forces for everything under the sun, so when are they going to do something to combat the rise of traffickers?
Editorials
The reality about farming in SA is food for thought
There is a worrying danger that our food producers may quit simply because they can no longer make a living off the land.
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Mayors ‘listen’, but voters are watching
We know that elections are coming and politicians’ sweet words seldom translate into real improvements for voters.
Columns
Let’s all be active citizens and build this country
Each community, including those which may appear dysfunctional, has that ability to make things better.
Columns
There’s no place like home
What’s left to come home to? A friendly response from passport officers at our airports, a beaming tour bus operator, neighbours and our pups.
Editorials
EFF: Mobsters or revolutionaries?
EFF members, following the example of the leadership, espouse and practise violence when it is needed to get their way.
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Women are half of SA’s resources
We will not progress as a nation if we continue to sideline or ignore half of our population because they are women.
Columns
Fact is, old rockers never die
I was thinking about Granma Spice, Geriatric Spice, Zombie Spice, Dried Spice and Push-up Spice. And I mean that with the utmost admiration.
Columns
Sometimes, DA, just shut up
In the hours after a little boy’s body was found decomposing in a ditch, the DA should have resisted their almost automatic urge by now to just blame the ANC.
Columns
Facebook? Bury your face in a book instead
Hardy souls in different parts of the world are giving up social media in all its forms for the 30 days of September.
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Let’s hope action is taken against Gupta cronies
The Guptas’ scandals and claims of their involvement with Zuma and company are nothing new.
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No accountability from ministers fuels public fury
If only South African ministers could take a leaf out of Bulgaria’s book.
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SA athletes carry the torch internationally
It’s refreshing to see South African athletes Caster Semenya and Luvo Manyonga shining on the world stage while other codes are struggling.
Columns
Jaundiced Eye: Darwin Awards is an arena where SA can shine
We might not do brilliantly at the Olympics. We don’t win the Maths Olympiads or the World Chess Championships. But at being terminally dumb…
Columns
Singling out minorities for special opprobrium is unacceptable
The less able you are to attract support using good governance and policies, the more likely your bigotry will show.
Editorials
The ANC is not fixing what was broken in North West
While they engage in power struggles, state coffer looting and concealment of criminal cadres we will never move forward.
Columns
Orchids and Onions: Flag Bearer ads have a happy taste, for real
Politicians need to learn that they are not the story. So, City of Joburg, you get this week’s Onion for unnecessary ego-stroking.
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