8 June 2021 - Dr Frans Cronje, chief executive of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) notes: ‘It was alarming to see the extent to which fallacious nonsense came to define public policy debates such as that “white privilege” and “white monopoly capital” explained black poverty when, as just one example, South Africa was recording some of the worst school-level literacy and numeracy rates of any emerging market.’
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Anthea Jeffrey questions why President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to distance his party from the EFF view on state custodianship when his ANC colleagues put forward two clauses on the issue which aren t very different from EFF proposals.
President Cyril Ramaphosa was in full but unconvincing reassurance mode at a media briefing last Thursday. The president told journalists the ANC differs from the EFF and does not want the pending constitutional amendment bill (the expropriation without compensation – EWC bill) to include state custodianship of all land.
Yet, just three days before the president tried to distance his party from the custodianship idea, his ANC colleagues on the ad hoc committee responsible for drafting the EWC bill put forward two clauses on state custodianship that differ very little from those suggested by the EFF.
Rustenburg drowning in sewerage and residents are without water
By Norman Cloete
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Political parties and residents in Rustenburg, in the North, say they are drowning in sewerage and water shortages are now a part of their daily lives.
Frustrated residents laid the blame squarely at the feet of the ANC-led municipality, accusing the powers that be of turning a blind eye to the sewerage spills and water outages in various areas across the city.
Members of the EFF and the DA have joined forces to highlight the challenges of residents who now go without water for up to four days at a time.The parties said a public health crisis is looming in the area.
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A recently published Generic Environmental Management Programme seeks to regulate LandCare projects and exclude identified activities related to the implementation of the LandCare Programme from the need to obtain environmental authorisation
On 29 March 2021, a Generic Environmental Management Programme (EMPr) for the management and mitigation of environmental impacts resulting from the implementation of LandCare projects was published for adoption. With this publication, the Minister of Forestry Fisheries and the Environment further excluded, based on compliance with this generic EMPr, identified activitie