This year has seen the world’s central banks strike a hawkish tone, delivering unprecedented interest rate hikes amid the war in Ukraine, rising fuel and food prices, and runaway inflation. The ‘cost-of-living crisis’ has become a household term and central banks argue they must hike interest rates to keep up pace with inflation and bring …
On Tuesday, former DA Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse filed a court application to have the election of ANC mayor Dada Morero reversed. Phalatse filed papers at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg seeking to have the council meeting that removed her from office declared unlawful and unconstitutional. But what’s behind the collapse of the coalition …
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On Friday, the minister of public enterprises Pravin Gordhan announced the new Eskom board and tasked it with reviewing the current executives at the power utility and turning around the failing SOE. However, the new board will only be able to effect change at the top level and won’t solve the mountain of problems at …
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In the opinion pages today, taxi associations are acting like mafia organisations and threatening bus company Intercape through violence, there are calls for he tripartite alliance between the ANC, SACP, and Cosatu to come to an end, and will Mosebenzi Zwane come clean during the Vrede Dairy Farm trial and reveal the Gupta’s dirty dealings? …
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Earlier this week former president Jacob Zuma sent a press release via his daughter Dudu Sambudla-Zuma’s Twitter account in what was an indication that he would be ready to stand for the ANC chairpersonship while he reiterated his support for his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to become party president. But what is behind Zuma’s bid to …
Opinions Today: Jacob Zuma wants back into ANC top six Read More »
Faith Nketsi recently tweeted that a Malawian gardener who worked for her mother stole their belongings. According to Nketsi, they embraced the Malawian family as if they were their own. This event sparked a Twitter discussion. Some individuals questioned whether or not we should assign a nationality to crimes, while others suggested that we should …
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There is a raft of ongoing debate as to whether the world’s central banks are correct in their assessment that interest rate hikes will help to tame runaway inflation with the war in Ukraine and surging energy prices not helping the cause. Central banks see hawkish rate hikes as the best hope of taming inflation …
Opinions Today: Are central banks right to hike interest rates to combat inflation? Read More »
Do we need to face up to the spheres of society and opposition parties that are asking for Eskom CEO André de Ruyter and the board to be fired due to the inability to fix Eskom or did they simply inherit a poisoned chalice too far gone to be saved? EDITORIAL | Eskom board and …
Opinions Today: Is it time for the Eskom board and CEO to be let go? Read More »
The ongoing electricity crisis has naturally dominated the news cycle with breaking news from dawn till dusk as South Africans try to deal with crippling load shedding schedules that make it difficult to live and work. But does the government have the resolve to solve the deep-rooted problems at Eskom and does President Cyril Ramaphosa …
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In today’s opinions, Natasha Marrian takes a look at the recent movements in the country’s various metros that are governed by coalition agreements. News24’s Friday Briefing gathers opinions on whether Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma can defeat Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC elective conference. Makhudu Sefara writes about the DA and EFF objections to law professor Richard Calland’s …
