Opinion

In today’s opinions, News24’s Friday Briefing includes pieces based on the furore at Eskom this week with reflections on the state of the power utility, analysis of the recent explosive board meeting with parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), and whether those in leadership have dropped the ball. The Friday Briefing includes reflections from …

Opinions of the Day: The Eskom mess and Cape Town independence of a different kind Read More »

Today we begin with Eskom board member Busi Mavuso’s recent jettison from a meeting with parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) by its chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa, an IFP MP. Financial Mail writes Mavuso has South Africa’s backing after she was asked to leave the meeting by Hlengwa when she said the blame for Eskom’s …

Opinions of the Day: We all stand with Busi Mavuso on the ANC created Eskom disaster Read More »

In today’s opinions, political commentator Ralph Mathekga writes the government is creating a long-term headache for itself by creating parallel structures to manage the dispersal of relief funds in KwaZulu-Natal. The government has enlisted the Solidarity Fund to administer the funds meant for victims and rebuilding efforts brought on by excessive flooding and heavy rainfall …

Opinions of the Day: Outsourcing KZN relief funds management won’t end well Read More »

“The reality of the matter is this is not our mess,” is the statement that Eskom board member Busisiwe Mavuso is reported to have said in a recent war of words between the power utility’s board and parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) chair Mkhuleko Hlengwa. Business Day writes Scopa was on an oversight …

Opinions of the Day: Busi Mavuso is right, the ANC is to blame for Eskom’s mess Read More »

Do any of us think opportunistic politicians will come to some realisation that we have hit absolute rock bottom when it comes to the public trust that government institutions will do the bare minimum and not steal funds meant to help the citizens they have been elected to serve? Sunday Times Daily writes as bad …

Opinions of the Day: We’ve hit rock bottom on corruption Read More »

It’s an indictment on the party itself that we already assume there will be fraud and corruption wherever the ANC is involved in governing. Yesterday we brought you the opinions of those who believe the party will automatically steal funding meant to help with relief efforts in the flood ravished KwaZulu-Natal. Stephen Grootes writes today …

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As the clean-up and relief operations begin in earnest in KwaZulu-Natal amid the devastating floods that have ravished the province, it is estimated that around 40,000 people have been displaced from their homes. Subsequently, the flooding has forced the government’s hand to place the country under another state of disaster, which will unlock much-needed funding …

Opinions of the Day: We just don’t trust government with KZN flood relief funds Read More »

Will former president Jacob Zuma ever see the inside of a courtroom after his corruption trial along with French arms dealer Thales was postponed yet again in the Pietermaritzburg High Court last week? It’s a question Adriaan Basson has tackled and the News24 editor writes it’s not only Zuma’s fault that the corruption trial has …

Opinions of the Day: From Zuma’s use of the legal system to sustainable corruption in SA Read More »

The EFF has made enemy number one out of businessman Johann Rupert. The man behind Remgro was the target of another EFF protest last week when the red berets descended on his Stellenbosch wine farms and Remgro’s head offices to hand over a memorandum of demands that must be met within 14 days. Rupert has …

Opinions of the Day: Johann Rupert – the EFF bogeyman Read More »