There can be no arguing that the pace of land reform in South Africa needs to be speeded up. Delays in implementing one of the most integral elements of redress have served only to heighten socioeconomic tensions in the country
For all its faults and criticisms, the World Economic Forum is the one place where a country or region’s investment case is given a theme that investment markets follow through the course of the year. Is the SA story bullish, or hopeless?
In the tale of South African Airways (SAA), whose future is delicately poised as it cuts back on domestic and international flights, the state is perhaps receiving a hard lesson in the costs of its continuous indecision.
Inflexible unionists beware: It’s SAA today, Eskom tomorrow – The Citizen If we needed a clearer message from the state that it is no longer business as usual, it is SAA’s move into business rescue. For the longest time, the assumption has always been that state-owned enterprises are simply “too big to fail” and by…
SA has a growth problem. The latest example was encapsulated in this week’s third-quarter GDP figures: the economy contracted 0.6% from the previous quarter and 0.1% year on year. The GDP numbers should prove a reality check after the buoyant political responses to second-quarter growth of 3.1%. That was off a low base and represented…
We have been here before, perhaps one too many times: looking towards a date on the economic calendar with much foreboding, wondering what it might mean for the South African economy. A couple of months ago, there was a lot riding on the convictions of finance minister Tito Mboweni to address our fiscal challenges in…
It is no secret that business was in the forefront of fighting State Capture. The voice of business was clear. We supported the call for the establishment of the Commission of Inquiry on State Capture.As Judge Raymond Zondo continues chairing the commission, we are increasingly seeing and hearing how some corporates and businesspeople got their…
Amid the hundreds of billions in pledges, Ramaphosa still has his work cut out – The Citizen Of the many mandates that President Cyril Ramaphosa has undertaken over the past two years, his biggest challenge has been that of breathing new confidence into the South African economy in perhaps the most uncertain period in…
If there’s one aspect that has been at the centre of the collapse of governance across SA’s state-owned companies over the past decade, it is that the politics of the day have played itself out in the boardroom decisions of institutions such as SAA. If we are to break with this period, boards as well…
It is now more than six years since Thomas Piketty published his magnus opus, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The French economist penned a more than 700-page book about growing inequality and just how policymakers could help address a problem that’s seemingly spiraling out of control. Since the book’s release, policymakers and businesses across the world…
By Busi Mavuso, BLSA CEO The three central points of the document hold the keys to getting SA out of its economic slump When the cabinet meets this week it will in all likelihood do so against a background of news of a second quarter of positive economic growth. This means SA escaped the technical…
It is millennia since civilisation, centuries since women and in South Africa’s case it’s 25 years into democracy since women entered the corporate jungle, yet we as corporate South Africa have little to show for it when it comes to women empowerment in the workplace. The picture is even more bleak for black African women.…