Nicholas Babaya
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22 Oct, 2020
With the government budget deficit expected to pass 40% this year, the African National Congress’s (ANC) options to source the coal needed to fuel its gravy train are dwindling. There should be little doubt that the new expropriation law is intended to make up for this insufficiency.
While known cases have risen in Europe and North America, there has not been a corresponding increase in deaths. Why not? The CRA team and guest speaker, Ian McGorian, big data analyst and member of Pandemics Data & Analysis (PANDA), discuss the validity of the “second wave” thesis.
MyBroadband
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20 Oct, 2020
South Africa has run out of money and the only way to resolve this problem is to cut back on state spending, which is politically very difficult to do.
Over 2 million jobs have been lost due to the economic Lockdown imposed by the ANC government. South Africa's structural unemployment problem is steadily worsening.
Tawanda Makombo
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14 Oct, 2020
Operations and jobs will remain at risk if state-owned South African Airways (SAA) is not privatised.
Tawanda Makombo
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14 Oct, 2020
There is a risk that South Africa’s life expectancy which is the average period that a person may expect to live, may fall from the current levels which are comparable to those of emerging markets.
Gerbrandt van Heerden
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12 Oct, 2020
The past decade has seen a rapid decline in the number of dollar millionaires living in South Africa.
The National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill will have far-reaching consequences for healthcare funding in South Africa. In this CRA webinar, Mike Settas − Managing Director of Cinagi, a private health insurance provider − discusses the risks associated with the NHI proposal and prospects for its implementation.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed to tackle corruption in the African National Congress (ANC). But does he have the political will and the strength to do so? The President faces a deep dilemma: he must be seen to act, but attempting to defeat corruption could risk tearing the ANC apart. Frans Cronje and Bheki Mahlobo discuss the ANC's corruption dilemma and various scenarios for the party.
Tawanda Makombo
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17 Sep, 2020
The proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) is likely to see a skills exodus from the health sector.
Tawanda Makombo
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10 Sep, 2020
Company liquidations and employee retrenchments are a stark reminder of the extensive and continuing impact on economic activity of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resultant lockdown.
Bheki Mahlobo and Thuthukani Ndebele
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03 Sep, 2020
Poor people with little education and no work, and who generally live under difficult conditions, find themselves relying on state support, while being unable to occupy centre stage in public discourse. They are the underclass — often neglected and ‘invisible’ — yet increasingly, they are becoming a potential source of unrest.
[Opinion] New Expropriation Bill a sign that the ANC’s days are numbered
