International Relations minister Ronald’s pompous posturing over some extemporaneous remarks made by new US Ambassador Brent Bozell served as a convenient media red herring to deflect attention from the IMF’s damning condemnation of the effect...
The Mercury’s (March 3) fervent appeal for perpetuating BEE is based on the very ideology it has always renounced, namely, racial discrimination, ironically, in the belief that undoing racial discrimination can be achieved by promoting more of...
Dr Thami Mazwai says he shudders with disbelief at efforts to scrap BEE. But given the failure of BEE to uplift blacks, it is amazing that Mazwai persists in advocating its continuance (Business Report, February 25). Nowhere in his attempt to...
Financed by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, the claim by Brand South Africa that the country’s “reform path is winning back investor confidence” (Business Report, October 24) is government propaganda at its worst because it totally...
Since its inception, B-BBEE has been a Trojan horse intended incrementally to attain total black control of the economy. But having stalled at enriching only fifteen percent of the black population and with impatience increasing, it would appear...
It is regrettable that The Mercury (March 5) embraces the ANC’s narrative that the actions of AfriForum and Solidariteit are harming the country’s image by disseminating misinformation about non-racialism. What is misinformation is that...
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