Trevor Manuel announced last week that a rethink of Black Economic Empowerment was required. His sentiments were echoed by ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa in a separate statement where he acknowledged that mistakes were made on BEE and in public service. Wonkie hopes that more is done during the ANC’s next term than the “lets address […]
Archives for April 2009
Trevor Manuel on Black Empowerment
June 7th, 2026 (Updated)Friday Art Class – Perspective
June 7th, 2026 (Updated)Malema announces that President Zuma and the ANC will be targeting a THREE thirds majority in the upcoming 2009 South Africa elections.
Oprah taps Malema’s brain on school curriculum
June 7th, 2026 (Updated)Oprah Winfrey has been taking a lot of flak about her Leadership Academy in South Africa. When mentioned, her boarding school based in Henley-on-Klip, generally sparks comments like ‘She thinks she can just set up something here without understanding the South African youth and their needs’, or worse triggers snide remarks like ‘typical American disaster […]
Goodbye Poison Ivy
June 7th, 2026 (Updated)The Sunday Times published a scathing but most appropriate orbituary for dead telecommunications minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri last weekend. Seat-warmer president Kgalema Motlanthe said she was an extraordinary woman – and that she certainly was: a member of Thabo Mbeki‘s so called dream team after the 1999 election, she set South Africa back by at least […]
Opposition uproar as ANC feeds the poor
June 7th, 2026 (Updated)The ANC did say they would address poverty – they just didn’t say when they would and for how long! Opposition parties were in an uproar about unscrupulous campaigning by the ANC last week when ANC t-shirt bearers gave out food parcels in poor areas of South Africa.