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The poor are still mostly black, but capitalism remains the determiner

A recent radio programme demonstrated how people can recognise and learn from the past, yet remain blind to the much more pressing present. Under discussion was the new name for the Port Elizabeth Airport and its significance for South Africa in 2021. An historian from the University of Cape Town explained who the renamed Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport was named after: he was a Khoi leader who joined forces with the Xhosa people in opposing colonial expansion on the 18 th-century eastern border of the Cape. We were further informed that the apartheid government’s policy of divide and rule had been most effective in shattering the unity between the Khoi (and, more broadly and subsequently, the coloured people) and the amaXhosa. The interviewer then asked: who benefits now from the division between black and coloured South Africans? 

Connecting unexplored dots: Zuma, Ace, the Nkandla tea

A six-year-old family member developed the “why did the chicken cross the road” into his own riddle: “How does a cow do maths? By using a cowculator.” Inspired by him, how would we answer this particular riddle: what connection is there between Jacob Zuma’s recent announcement of his defiance of the Constitutional Court, the ANC secretary-general’s defence of the former president of South Africa, Julius Malema having tea with Zuma, the Progressive Business Forum requiring the vaccine rollout to be a business opportunity for black business and… what the current Employment Equity Amendment Bill (EEAB) intends leaving unamended?

Top 0 5% are getting rich from Covid-19 crisis Tax them!

Top 0.5% are getting rich from Covid-19 crisis. Tax them! - economist 4 February 2021 3:21 PM Share This: You can’t have a small minority living as if they are tourists here,” says economist Dick Forslund. RELATED: Calls for a special tax on the superrich are incessant and growing louder, not only in South Africa but around the world. In the United States this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren joined a US Senate committee on tax, giving her much power to influence decisions in this regard. Warren - who ran against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary - campaigned on the idea of a wealth tax on accumulated assets.

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