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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.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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Letter: Vavi outsmarts the ANC - Business Day, 13th March 2012.

"If Mr Vavi can make the ANC look so bad over an issue such as tolling, just think what he could do with the fact that 50% of young people do not work or have not completed their schooling."

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How legitimate are white fears? Politicsweb, 12th March 2012.

The Institute's research manager, Lucy Holborn, says that feelings of persecution by some Afrikaners in South Africa are not supported by the facts.

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Can the government learn from its mistakes on land reform? Business Day, 5th March 2012.

Instead of thumb-suck targets and flawed assumptions, we need a land policy that helps established small-scale black farmers to expand.

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A remarkable woman at the head of a remarkable institution - Business Day, 27th February 2012.

Queen Elizabeth’s reign — during which she has outlasted 12 British prime ministers and 12 US presidents — has been a huge success.

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Shift in government thinking will require 'pillars of reform' - Business Day, 28th February 2012.

Jobs and growth are coming back into focus and this opens the way for three policy reforms that will be necessary if the government is to meet its growth and employment targets

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