[Source: Daily Maverick by Marianne Merten.]
Speculation over Cabinet positions and factional ANC jockeying is distracting and obscures what is central — not who holds what position, but determination by the Cabinet to put all shoulders to the same wheel. And Eskom will be central in any clean-up, because without fixing Eskom, there’s little to be done for South Africa. Read more
[Source: Daily Maverick by Suné Payne & Leila Dougan.]
Food security is a global crisis. In South Africa, almost seven million people ‘experienced hunger’ in 2017 and more than 10 million people had inadequate access to food, according to the Stats SA General Household Survey. Read more
[Source: Politicsweb by Andrew Donaldson.]
I was expecting much of the same old, same old from Reporting History: Mandela and a New South Africa, a BBC Four documentary in which, according to the bumf, correspondent Fergal Keane would be looking back on his reports for the Beeb and considering “why history did not turn out the way he expected”. Read more
[Source: Business Day by Sunita Menon.]
Just as he was basking in the ringing endorsement he got from Goldman Sachs, President Cyril Ramaphosa got a wake-up call from Moody’s Investors Service, which warned it might downgrade the country’s debt if he does not deliver promised reforms. Read more
[Source: Business Day by Brian Kantor.]
Over the next few years we will learn much more about the sensitivity of employment in SA to large changes in the minimum wages employers are able to offer. Read more