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PHOTO ESSAY | CAPE TOWN Shamiel Salie (not pictured) adds the final touches to Tashriq Reid (17), a member of the Cape Argus District 6 Entertainers troupe. Due to the long lines, some minstrels waited three hours to get their faces completed. The actual time spent getting their faces painted is about ten minutes each.…

Without economic growth, you can’t end poverty. The world is full of clichés. One to question proclaims that “economic growth is only good if it benefits everyone.” Really? James Peron of the Free Market Foundation and the Moorfield Storey Institute reports 4 January 2017 – Sarah lives out in the middle of nowhere. She grows vegetables…

The Inkatha Freedom Party has won a runaway victory in the critical Nqutu general municipal by-election in KwaZulu Natal winning 19 of the 33 seats on the council. Although the run-up to the election saw a turbo-charged campaign by the African National Congress, it managed to clinch only three ward seats in the municipality, although it picked…

At 03h30, Sunday, 16th July, NSRI St Francis Bay duty crew were activated by MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre) following reports of red distress flares reported by Chokka fishing vessels at sea off-shore of Thyspoint. The Chokka fishing vessel Silver Eagle had witnessed the red distress flares at around 03h00 and raised the alarm calling…

While it is difficult to find region-wide domestic themes for 2017, we see a challenging external environment from the Trump Presidency (and related policy changes) and higher United States rates (and to a lesser degree eurozone and its monetary policy and politics) sharply magnifying domestic issues in EEMEA countries. Politics will be particularly in focus…

Writing from his prison cell AmaTembu King Zwelibanzi Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo writes a New Year’s message to his people. The article is re-published from Black Opinion 11 January 2017 – Bantwana Abahle (Good People), I would like to convey my message of inspiration for the new year 2017. I pray that you will enter the new year…

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OUTA chairperson Wayne Duvenage is no stranger to Biznews. Having left the comforts of his Avis desk in 2012, he’s been championing change in South Africa, with an arrow aimed squarely at the misuse of State funds. And what initially started out as a defiance against e-tolls in Gauteng, has become an organisation solely focused…

UCT – the implications of a failed debate – Prof Crowe lays it on the line Emeritus Professor Tim Crowe. Undeniable stout defender of academic standards at UCT, Professor Tim Crowe, takes an unexpectedly different slant here. Rather than his usual rational, well-argued but nevertheless outraged treatise, we have an invitation to his opponents to…

Clawing our way off the fiscal cliff – an economic rescue plan It’s one thing to expose our tragically poor economic performance over the past few years, but quite another to suggest, point for point, what needs to be done. That’s what economist John Maynard does below, showing that it’s hardly rocket science. What’s needed…