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My criticism of Thabo Mbeki’s OR Tambo lecture

Mandela Rhodes Scholars by Mandela Rhodes Scholars 6 November 2017

By Zukiswa Mqolomba Former President Thabo Mbeki’s OR Tambo lecture is indeed most welcome as it is a timely call to action to save the African National Congress (ANC) from a burgeoning trend of greed, avarice and an insatiable appetite to amass personal wealth, while millions of South Africans continue to live in wide-spread poverty […]

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The unbelievable cost of South Africa’s bloated public sector

Bert Olivier by Bert Olivier 19 September 201619 September 2016

South Africa would be significantly more economically viable if it did not have to carry a civil service sector that far exceeds the country’s needs in numerical terms. This is one of the many things one learns from R.W. Johnson’s candid, if sometimes completely disconcerting recent book, How Long Will South Africa Survive? The Looming […]

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