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Flood of corruption reports is actually an encouraging sign - Business Day, 14th May 2012.
John Kane-Berman argues that the flood of Media reports on corruption is actually a positive sign. It shows that corrupt behaviour by the Government is no longer being tolerated by its employees.
Deployment fast-tracking should be stopped in its tracks - Business Day, 30th April 2012.
More and more people now recognise the disastrous consequences of the cadre deployment policy of the African National Congress.
Business is expected to pay up, help out, and then shut up - Business Day, 16th April 2012.
The venom spat at Nedbank chairman Reuel Khoza by the ANC and the government it controls is significantly more poisonous than any previously directed publicly at businessmen who criticised them.
Naive to dismiss the revolutionary second transition agenda - Business Day, 2nd April 2012.
How seriously must we take the recent discussion document on "the second transition" in which the African National Congress (ANC) reiterates its commitment to the "national democratic revolution"? Some of the comment has been dismissed as "alarmist" or "hysterical".
Press Release: Canny amendments to the Protection of State Information Bill - 28th March 2012.
Canny amendments to the Protection of State Information Bill of 2011 (the Bill) might suffice to persuade a majority of Constitutional Court judges that the measure now passes constitutional muster, says the South African Institute of Race Relations. The amendments genuflect towards the Constitution’s guaranteed right ‘to receive or impart information’. However, they are likely to mean little in practice.
Research and Policy Brief: Much Devilry Still in the Detail of the Protection of State Information Bill - 20th March 2012.
The Protection of State Information Bill may now genuflect enough to guaranteed rights to convince a majority of Constitutional Court judges that it passes constitutional muster. But it still gives classification powers to hundreds of organs of state, bars independent or judicial review of their classification decisions, limits appeal to the courts (for all but state officials), and threatens journalists and others with imprisonment merely for ‘accessing’, ‘receiving’, ‘obtaining’ or ‘possessing’ classified information without ‘communicating’ it at all.
Spirit of resistance replaced by culture of acquiescence - Business Day, 19th March 2012.
Under HF Verwoerd, black education was deliberately starved of funds. Now education is funded more generously than any other item in the budget — and still children start the year without books.
Press Release: Business urged to do more to develop skills - 15th March 2012.
The South African Institute of Race Relations has said that companies invested in South Africa could overcome some of the skills constraints they face by doing more to identify and fund tertiary study opportunities for potential graduate professionals.
Press Release: Only 15% of public schools have laboratories - 7th March 2012.
The proportion of schools with laboratories and stocked laboratories declined greatly between 2006 and 2011, according to the South Africa Survey 2010/2011, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
Press Release: More prisoners or just longer sentences? 5th March 2012.
The proportion of South African prisoners serving sentences longer than ten years increased by more than 2 400% between 1995 and 2011, according to the latest South Africa Survey, published by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
