Insights

State set to provide R1bn to create black industrialists – don’t hold your breath

THE Department of Trade and Industry will provide grants and cheap loans to the tune of R1bn as part...

Government’s BEE policy creates middlemen

THE government’s black economic empowerment policy has contributed to the country’s...

Measuring black ownership on the JSE – we just can’t do it.

THERE has been much bluster recently about just how much of the JSE’s market capitalisation is owned...

BEE sector codes’ – your BEE options

A recent email from AQRate said the following This is probably the question we are asked the most...

Who stands to benefit from the revised BEE codes

A rhetorical question I think. The short answer is the African elite, the longer answer is African...

Fifty One Thirty – your new magic number

This post has been written often in my head.  It's proper title should be –...

Foreigners with farms over 12 000ha must sell

This appeared to indicate that the two-farm rule either looks set to be done away with, or that it...

Racial migration concept ‘an absurdity’ – a more liberal homeland approach, but it’s still a homeland approach

Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union Western Cape (Popcru) provincial secretary Mncedisi Mbolekwa...

The speech that caused the trouble – FERIAL HAFFAJEE

There is no Messiah – you are your own liberator My experience is that middle-class South Africa is...