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The almost simultaneous implosion of socialist and communist systems throughout the world is arguably the single most significant political event of the twentieth century. The year 1989 is particularly poignant because in that year the Berlin Wall was dismantled. This …
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Promoting his seminal book, ‘South Africa’s war against Capitalism,’ the economics Professor, Walter Williams averred that “The solution to South Africa’s problems is not special programs, it’s not affirmative action, it’s not handouts, and it’s not welfare. It is freedom. …
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The country’s economic junk status is a direct result of policy intransigence. Current government decisions appear to be based on a lack of consideration for the lessons of history. Economies are fragile. Persistent adverse policy-making breaks down an economy to …
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Instead of righting the wrongs of apartheid, Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) will perpetuate the evils. Apartheid’s greatest travesty, of which one of the worst legacies is the specter of EWC today, was expropriation without compensation of black held land. Instead …
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It is an unmitigated moral tragedy that in the year of celebrating what would have been Mandela’s 101st birthday, the incumbent government has betrayed him on an issue about which he felt strongly. This is the resolution by parliament to …
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