SA needs a holistic approach to rebuilding its economy; not a piecemeal one - and the rebuilding cannot rely on the shoulders of one man or woman alone; it should be systemic. Or to put it another way, If SA had more powerful institutions, it wouldn't need to put so much stock in individual people to keep its [...]
Something in me wants to reach out and give a hug to our well-meaning and indefatigable Finance Minister, Nhlanhla Nene, each time I hear him repeat to an audience of the converted that there is a looming possibility of government failing yet again to reach its tax revenue collection targets at the end of the [...]
GIVEN the length of time it has taken the ANC’s highest decision-making structure, its national executive committee (NEC), to recall President Jacob Zuma, it is clear that there is either a loud and vociferous minority of Zuma defenders who still agree with his repeated claim that he has done nothing wrong - despite all the [...]
A PART of me would like to muster the necessary ubuntu to sympathise with people who argue that KPMG should not be allowed to fall as a result of bad conduct by, ostensibly, only a few senior consultants. Accordingly, it would not be fair to make the claimed 95% of the KPMG employees, who apparently [...]