by @ifaisa | Mar 6, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
By Paul Hoffman The part that Paul Mashatile played in the appointment of John Lamola as the new SAA CEO is a direct conflict between the interests of the ANC in cadre deployment and his overall official duties as deputy president. The canary in the coal mine for...
by @ifaisa | Mar 1, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
Paul Hoffman 27 February 2025 Paul Hoffman notes that in 2004 ConCourt stripped whites of their protection against racial discrimination The fluidity in politics worldwide seems to be stimulating push-back in SA against the 140 odd race based laws introduced since...
by @ifaisa | Feb 27, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
By Paul Hoffman About R60-billion a year would have come in from the additional VAT in the aborted proposal to raise it by 2%. The loot of State Capture is estimated in trillions. There has been a wide range of different reactions to the postponement of the Budget...
by @ifaisa | Feb 25, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
March version of budget should address absence of new investment Your columnist Peter Bruce is spot on when he points out that the proposed hiking of VAT “as the only answer to a 20-year-old funding problem is intellectually lazy, politically disconnected and morally...
by @ifaisa | Feb 19, 2025 | Chapter 9, General
ANC continues destructive national democratic revolution opposed by GNU partners 17 February 2025 – 20:58 After it was able to muster only about 40% of the votes cast in the May 2024 general election the ANC was obliged to invite other parties represented in...