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Africa’s bitter history, of colonialism and apartheid, with its accompanying ethnic division, conflict, and state-sponsored economic inequalities has made the challenge of cobbling together…
South Africa’s governance model is broken. Failure to change SAs governance model will lead to the country being unable to overcome the health, social…
South Africa urgently needs social pacts at all levels between; government, business, and civil society. The social pacts serve to respond to the financial,…
SA is rapidly going down the way of Mexico, where the criminal underworld, cartels and gangs have terrifying power and have brazenly created no-go…
Social partners involved in SA’s social dialogue have not been diverse enough, and so decisions often do not have broad societal buy-in. Social pacts…
It is likely that companies will see increasing “public” protests against them, similar to the “service delivery” protests against government corruption, mismanagement and poor…
Introduction The Constitutional Court’s decision in July 2020 to declare unconstitutional aspects of the Electoral Act which disallow individuals to stand as independent candidates…
Given the cataclysmic nature of the Covid-19 economic crisis conventional economic responses, of pursuing counter-cyclical fiscal policy, which is increasing public spending and cutting…
Elon Musk’s founding of Tesla and SpaceX is an example of the kind of entrepreneurial mindset, culture and doggedness South Africa should make a…
The Constitutional Court’s decision to declare unconstitutional aspects of the Electoral Act – which disallow individuals to stand as independent candidates for elections in…