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Western Cape Government Gets Budget Increase Way Above Inflation
And just wait till you hear what they’re blowing it on. Fin24 reports: Western Cape Premier Helen Zille presented her department’s budget on Friday, in which she prioritised developing skills and...
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New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don’t Want To Have A Country Anymore
Well, not quite. But this Onion parody is deliciously libertarian. Choice excerpts: “I already belong to a health club, a church, and the Kiwanis Club,” Tammy Golden of Los Angeles wrote. “I’m a...
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“The long-term outlook for entrepreneurial activity in SA is bleak.”
That’s how Chris concluded this blog’s first post last week (see others here) on the government’s now-controversial proposed “Licensing of Businesses Bill”. This morning, the Business Day reports that:...
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Guinness Knows What Politics Is All About
Bloomberg ran an article last week titled Guinness Nigeria Sees Consumer Improvement Nearer Elections. Curious. Why would a liquor-maker suspect their business prospects would improve close to such a...
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Fine Dining Prices at the Carlton Hotel in the 1960s
This is a hotel menu from the long-ago illustrious Carlton Hotel in 1963, featured on this Facebook page: Prawns a l’Orientale, at a whopping R1.35, is the most expensive item on the menu. Today, a...
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Regime Uncertainty Ramps Up as The Big Loot Rolls On
Business Day reports that “anxiety” is being created by the departure of a senior bureaucrat at the National Treasury who had been responsible for “designing” the legal apparatus of government...
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Anatomy of a crony-government retail development
“Joburg station being transformed into ‘mega commercial space’” declares The Star, because what SA really needs are more “mega” concentrations of food and retail outlets. The Passenger Rail Agency of...
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Ivo Vegter on The Costs of Excessive Risk Aversion and Environmental...
Journalist and author Ivo Vegter’s presentation at TEDx in Cape Town. by
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Cry, the Beloved Highways
By Gareth B With the passage of the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill, which is seen as the final hurdle to clearing the way for the implementation of the controversial Gauteng e-toll...
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