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A BizNews tribe member rightly took me to task after I opined last week that in the long-run, the Transnet strike was a good thing.

Justin Mudge says his industry’s 40 000 jobs are on a knife edge as the Transnet strike comes at the height of the blueberry picking season.

There are two ways of viewing the current labour strike at Transnet, the country’s State-owned rail and port monopoly.

10 August 2022 - Speaking ahead of US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s address at the University of Pretoria, international relations & co-operation minister Naledi Pandor declared that SA has “no choice” but to address its socioeconomic crisis.

17 June 2022 - South Africa needs a more ‘activist’ state, President Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week.

Kerala suffers less from clientelism, authoritarianism, and neo-liberalism than many other parts of the world, but it is affected by the universal dilemma of how to unify numerous actors and build democratic links between the local, the wider government, and the economy. This article’s comparative insights indicate that the state requires democratic partnership governance to

SA needs a more ‘activist’ state, Cyril Ramaphosa told a media briefing last week. A key idea here is the so called developmental state.

On 2 and 3 July the Defend our Democracy campaign will hold a national conference to debate plans for rebuilding a South Africa that is in accord with constitutional values and free of corruption. It is inviting public comments on a discussion paper prepared for debate at the conference.

Mashupye Herbert Maserumule’s profile on The Conversation

15 March 2022 - Like a dreadful inevitability – because that is what it is – load-shedding is back. Once more, the economy stutters as opportunities are lost, and prospects for meaningful growth recede a little further into the distance.