Selling off state-owned enterprises may not guarantee their continued developmental role
The budget outlines the risks they pose but there are plans to mitigate against them
He came to power as a compromised figure. He survived a rape trial. He factionalised the ANC and under his watch, SOEs reached a point of implosion
‘The president is safe. I will protect the president, I will not contradict him’
The exchange has been slow to act on calls for better protections and compliance monitoring
‘Asking Moyane and Makwakwa to be accountable might make those taxpayers feel a little better’
The amount misspent by state-owned enterprises may almost match the R50-billion budget gap
Equal Education has taken the fight over the Eastern Cape’s education infrastructure crisis to the state owned enterprises largely responsible
There is no good case for bailing out South African Airways, it’s simply a matter of avoiding a potentially catastrophic debt default.
SABC interim board chair Khanyisile Kweyama told Parliament’s communications committee they would go after all of Motsoeneng’s assets to recoup funds
‘Governance gaps’ and diminished confidence are eroding investors’ appetite for SOE bonds
President Jacob Zuma is part of a faction which embraces patronage politics writes Steven Friedman
Does the SABC prioritise profit or purpose?
The public protector has made adverse findings on state-owned enterprises in the past financial year
KwaZulu-Natal’s acting Hawks boss, General Alfred Khana, says they had assumed they needed to focus their probe on government departments instead.
That South Africa’s national airline is in a parlous state is no longer in dispute.
Jacob Zuma has done an about-turn and will implement the recommendations of a 2013 report on management of floundering state-owned entities.
Proponents of privatisation are missing a point: what’s crucial, whether in state or private enterprises, is efficiency.
The review of state-owned entities moots the possibility of collapsing non-viable parastatals but skirts the vexed issue of privatisation.
The Chinese model of state-led development has garnered wide support from a number of African governments, but it comes with governance-related risks.
Pravin Gordhan is standing firm on curbing hikes in public sector wages, raising the hackles of Cosatu, which is girding itself for war on the issue.
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Government has tightened the purse strings and its tough stance on bailouts for parastatals seems to be bearing fruit.
Pravin Gordhan stresses that government departments have to stretch their resources and fund their projects with their own cashflows.
President Jacob Zuma is looking East for inspiration, as the ANC pushes for resource nationalism rather than a crude form of nationalisation.
The conduct of some private companies is fuelling the debate on nationalisation, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Wednesday.
A state-owned pharmaceutical company providing ARVs is not a clear remedy for cheaper and more efficient manufacturing of the life-saving medication.
Malusi Gigaba has said efficient state-owned enterprises must be efficient to create jobs and unlock growth in South Africa.
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Debate is raging in the ANC over whether to step up its involvement in the management of state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
The salaries of state-owned enterprise board members, like the SABC, is to be reviewed, Communications Minister Siphiwe Nyanda has said.
ANC convenes parliamentary hearings to establish a state mining company based on a resolution that no one in the party can find.
The Department of Public Enterprises responds to what it calls inaccuracies about the airline’s capitalisation.