OPINION: Prof Michael Mouse signs climate petition
TO anyone who may still doubt that the quality of “the mainstream media” has not degraded to the point of being only useful for...
OPINION: Cheers to a prosperous 2020!
CHRISTMAS had come and gone, New Year had come and gone, so peace and quiet were finally returning to the local pub and grill....
OPINION: The inexorable rise of bureaucracies everywhere
SOME readers will recall that the first rather timid parliamentary inquiry into Nkandla’s financing concluded that civil servants fouled up. It was they who...
OPINION: Luke solves the colour problem
LUKE the Dude was the centre of attention at the local Pub and Grill, meeting place of the convivial conversationalists who dissect the more...
Devastating year for households’ net wealth
South African households experienced a devastating year in 2018. Collectively they lost about R450 billion or half-a-trillion rand of their real net wealth (the...
Will Day Zero Rain On Cape Town’s Parade Again?
Cape Town's drought has broken, and the city appears safe from Day Zero through 2019. But we are very far from being out of...
Municipalities must change the way they are governed
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City needs to gain control of it’s staff costs
Unless the City Council can gain control of its staff costs, Cape Town is headed for serious financial problems says the Cape Chamber of...
Logic needs to be applied in Eskom and SAA
Eskom is overstaffed by 66% and the average salary is more than R700 000 a year according to the World Bank. We know this...
Land expropriation will hit blacks more
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