This is the most trying time to be a young person in South Africa – youth unemployment, susceptibility to HIV/AIDS and political apathy. In general, young people feel that their concerns fall on deaf ears. And this situation is what Read the full story
In a holds-no-barreled tone, Gerhard Papenfus, chief executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NESA), highlights the institutional barriers which the culture of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) has put placed on the growth and development of white owned Read the full story
Universities have to prove that they are relevant in the modern world which needs a workforce that is self-driven and highly innovative. This was the fundamental message of a speech by Prof. Wim de Villiers, the new rector of Stellenbosch Read the full story
The recently launched Automotive Incubation Centre Rosslyn Nissan in Pretoria will boost the capacity of local manufacturers of automotive parts and components to compete with international suppliers. The centre, which it to be the second of its kind in the Read the full story
There is something the “minority” apartheid government had created and followed to the letter that government intends to emulate, ironic as it might sound. The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) will be used to create huge conglomerates owned by black people Read the full story
By Sanjeev “Mahatma” Gupta The young firebrands who are vehemently campaigning for Cecil Rhodes’ statue to be brought down are children who were either still in their nappies or not yet born in 1994. Most of this twitter generation learnt Read the full story
The plight of domestic workers has been highlighted in many a platform – low wages, long working hours in contravention of workers’ rights, and subjected to abuse from their employee. Now, news that 80% of the domestic workers don’t have Read the full story
One position of South African three Reserve Bank (Sarb) Deputy Governors, which became vacant after Lesetja Kganyago’s elevation to Governor, has now been filled by Kubi Naidoo, according to a press release from the Central Bank mailed to media houses Read the full story
By Sanjeev “Mahatma” Ghandi To South Africans high profile global sporting events are like a drug which they take to forget seething issues bothering them, fleetingly. And, after a semblance of unity and non-racialism, where South Africans of all Read the full story
By Sanjeev “Mahatma” Gupta There is something the ones engaged in the heated debate about the impending Land expropriation Law are totally missing: productive land usage. As a disclaimer, this is not an alarmist outlook, but the situation in a Read the full story
