Following my recent meeting with the Citrus Growers Association (CGA), I wish to register my concern about the current state of service delivery at the Port of Cape Town and its potential negative impact on the export of agricultural products.
While official police statistics recently released, show an increase in the murder rate by 8.4% and attempted murders up by 8.7%, proposed amendments to the Firearms Control Act gazetted for public comment on Friday, want to remove “self-defence” as a reason for owning a firearm.
South Africans anxiously ponder what their future will be under an ANC government that claims it will be in power forever. In essence, this regime has managed to stay in power since 1994 for two crucial reasons – firstly, the state’s welfare payment to eighteen million people every month and, secondly, the bogey man of apartheid which is parroted relentlessly by the ANC during pre-election periods.
The word “profit” must be one of the most maligned and vilified in human history. This is either out of ignorance, for ideological reasons, or out of pure malice.
Bekezela Phakathi’s report on expropriation without compensation (EWC) and banking opens up an important assessment of the long-term prospects for SA’s private sector financial institutions (“Expropriation without compensation will not collapse banks, says Ngcukaitobi”, April 20).
The Ad Hoc Committee tasked with drafting an amendment to section 25 of the Constitution published the Eighteenth Constitutional Amendment Bill for public comments late in 2019 and Agbiz submitted inputs in February 2020.
