Boycotts and sanctions against Israel are a vote for nonviolence, democracy and self-determination
Critical issues cut to the heart of the party’s recent record, which is perhaps why its leaders are failing to speak out.
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/ 28 October 2011
South Africa is about to enter into the biggest ever public-procurement processes in its history — involving Eskom and Transnet.
Our president has a colourful private life and while it might be simpler, we cannot simply tune out of the soap opera.
The Ministry of Housing is squaring up against banks and financial institutions to force them to provide loans to lower-income people and those living in redlined areas such as townships and informal settlements. Parliament may soon table the Community Reinvestment Bill.
Enron, Worldcom, Xerox, Merck: capitalism is finally catching up with itself. Whether this is true is probably part of a larger ideological question. What is certain is that standards of corporate governance are on the decline throughout the world, not only in the United States.
Perhaps a moral regeneration summit is appropriate in a country where prison warders allegedly sanction the abuse of young children for a pittance and prisons become places where drug and alcohol peddling are the order of the day.
According to the United Nations, most perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity throughout history have gone unpunished. In spite of the World War II tribunals and the recent ad hoc international criminal tribunals not much has changed.
State-owned enterprises will have to be more responsive to the needs of the communities they serve if recommendations made by the second King report on corporate governance are anything to go by