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Much-loved journalist, defender of the underdog and mentor of young people Bob Kernohan has died.

Municipal councils are constitutionally mandated to deliver social and economic development for communities. Furthermore, councils are responsible for creating a safe and healthy environment. One area in which the latter filters through is via environmental impact assessments. Therefore, when a...

The new leaders of SA’s largest black business organisation have signalled their intention to intensify efforts towards a black bank, lobbying for the blacklisting of firms found guilty of fronting and addressing the design flaws in the black industrialists’ programme.

The shocking spectacle of the decline in public finances is only worsened by the pain being passed on to frontline workers. State departments are replete with projects and programmes which are a drain on the fiscus. Politicians and benefactors stand between these programmes’ inexplicable surv...

It is no secret that the Covid-19 outbreak is fast undoing the gains made throughout the continent, including in South Africa, over the past 20 years. Both the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have noted this developing trend in successive publications released since the onset of the pandemic. The distinguishing – or exacerbating — factor for the region is the scale and the depth of social policy, fiscal leverage and monetary policy buffers. More appropriately, the insufficient availability of these instruments has been fundamental in accelerating the adverse consequen...