Being a mom of 10 draws publicity, especially if you eventually make it into the Guinness World Records, but it was obvious to me that the shininess of the fame faded fast.
Question: My family is in the process of emigrating to the UK. I am 50 years old and currently have R3-million in my company pension fund. I do not need this money just yet because I made a decent profit from the sale of our family home. I am not sure what to do. Do I leave it in South Africa o.
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Vishnu Padayachee was a world-class scholar who worked across a number of disciplines, including history, but is best known for his contribution to economics. He is remembered for his leading role in the Macro-Economic Research Group (Merg) that developed Keynesian proposals for the ANC for a post-apartheid SA. The Merg proposals, which won wide acclaim from leading economists around the world, were suddenly dumped by the ANC in 1993, following intense lobbying by domestic and international capital and institutions like the World Bank.
The ANC, moving rapidly to the right on economic questions, adopted the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) in 1994. Two years later it made a turn to neoliberalism with the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (Gear) strategy. Countries in Latin America made huge social progress under left-wing governments, but we still have massive inequality and vast swathes of poverty. The work of Padayachee and his colleagues is no
Who can forget the line, screamed by the Queen, “Off with her head! Off with…”
Or: “No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first – verdict afterwards.”
Writers and scholars have been trying to understand the meanings within Lewis Carroll’s fantastical work for 150 years, but for me the story was a powerful comment about the madness of power and government (and the wisdom of mere mortals).
The Competition Commission and its commissioner, Tembinkosi Bonakele, exhibited the twisted logic worthy of Wonderland this week when the commission ruled against the acquisition of Burger King by Emerging Capital Partners, a Pan-African private equity firm that has been investing across Africa for the past 20 years. The firm has raised more than $3.2-billion in growth capital through its funds and co-investment vehicles. We’d like them to come back.
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A couple of weeks ago the Department of Home Affairs issued a Green Paper which sought submissions from the public on a number of marriage-related issues, including legally recognising polyandry. There was a lot of commotion on both the Twitter and actual streets. A considerable number of women saw this proposal as the way to equality and dismantling patriarchy in our society. But is it? I do not think so.
SA recognises polygyny, an already existing cultural and religious practice, by way of section 7(6) of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act, 1998, which states that “a husband in a customary marriage who wishes to enter into a further customary marriage with another woman after the commencement of this Act must make an application to the court to approve a written contract which will regulate the future matrimonial property system of his marriages”.