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2 years

@ClixWell You're in traffic.

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Being named the Minister of Electricity in SA is like being named the Admiral of the Lesotho Navy.

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As we celebrate SA's 🇿🇦 important petition to the ICJ, we must remember we were also the recipients of waves of support in our own struggle from around the world. In particular, states like Cuba 🇨🇺 sacrificed so much for us - for no gain.

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I dont understand how this is even possible - one of the central pillars of procurement is transparency. It is completely unacceptable that the private sale of public assets is not made public.

SAA-Takatso deal is being renegotiated

But secrecy wins the day as parliamentary portfolio committee meeting goes ahead in-camera.

www.moneyweb.co.za

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

Hiding behind all the noise surrounding Dis-Chem is the quiet fact that every single one of its executive directors is white and male..

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8 months

South Africa is one of those strange countries which has a Constitution that is progressively years ahead of its current elected government.

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2 years

Only in SA could our President go to Cop 27 and request unnecessary, large foreign denominated loans - literally in the week that civil servants finally begin to protest four years of exteme austerity and debt hypochondria.. Where are all the debt scare economists..?

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5 months

The notion that the SA civil service could neither prepare the ICJ application (together with counsel) nor file it without a foreign state paying for it - is bordering on extremely delusional. It is hard not to come to the conclusion that this isn't just racism.

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Ben Cronin

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7 months

We really need more in-depth analysis of African news in SA. There has been election conflict in Moz🇲🇿 , a contentious debt restructuring occurring in Zam 🇿🇲 and an epic battle over the power to tax in Kenya 🇰🇪 - but our coverage is so thin.

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Ben Cronin

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1 year

Is the Prof not aware that about 7 million households were only connected to the grid after '94? I understand his focus is on the long run under-investment in electricity (a policy which began in the 80s), but he surely can't be unaware of the massive increase in distribution?

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I will ask again, is your electricity supply better now than under apartheid?

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

@IsaahMhlanga As you indicate in your piece the min wage was only introduced in 2019 and our rate of unemployment has been climbing fairly consistently from 1994 - so min wag is clearly not the source of the problem. Your position is just ideology - that workers should be exploited to the max.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

This is from the Chair of the Eskom board? Is there any other way to describe it than private interests capturing and repurposing public resources for private profit..?

We cannot rely on Eskom any longer: Mavuso

While there has been progress, it has been too slow: BLSA's CEO.

www.moneyweb.co.za

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

Eskom does not need another CEO - it needs a DG. Eskom is a zombie company and we must now confront the fact that this self funding, corporate model can't work. Eskom must revert to a public utility and be re-intergrated into the national budget so we can directly fund new build

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

The greatest tragedy is that Walus is to be released before we have built an egalitarian society worthy of Hani's sacrifice.

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Ben Cronin

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29 days

I think this was exactly the concern raised by the SA gov when it considered withdrawing from the ICC. International legal institutions can not be designed for racist ends and retain their legitimacy.

Arnaud Bertrand

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29 days

This is incredible, but sadly unsurprising. When he received threats not to go after Israel, @KarimKhanQC reveals "a senior leader" told him the ICC "is built for Africa and for thugs like Putin", and not for the West and its allies.

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Ben Cronin

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I see there is a barrage of commentary suggesting an ANC-DA tie-up. Perhaps it's just me, but I think ppl are under-estimating just how much of a red line this would be for a significant number of ANC members.

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Ben Cronin

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8 months

Budget (MTBPS) continues the crazy self destruction: - Cutting R1 bn from HIV/Aids programme; - Cutting R2.9 bn from Universities; - Cutting R1.7 bn from social distress grant; and - Cutting R1.5 bn from School Infrastructure. This simply does not meet Constitutional muster..

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Ben Cronin

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My own view is that if the ANC leans into budget cuts, selling state assets and undermining the Minimum Wage in order to do a deal with the DA, then it has fundamentally misunderstood why it's losing support. The core of its actual support base is the precariat.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

This is absolutely crazy - it will be treated by the next generation as the equivalent of the Mandela/Mbeki arms deal. Only this time it might lead SA into a genuine debt trap.

Here's SA's R1.5trn investment plan for a just energy transition | Business

President Cyril Ramaphosa says that South Africa needs R1.5 trillion over the next five years to decarbonise the economy, but far more is needed after that to continue the transition.

www.news24.com

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

I just can't believe it the #StateCaptureReport actually recommends a "permanent" Commission be appointed... In effect proposing a permanent duplication of the SAPS/NPA.

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Ben Cronin

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2 months

I am really disappointed by the growing rightwing and quite frankly poor commentary in the Daily Maverick. Yet another weak piece:

Pragmatism, not ideology, should guide SA foreign policy

Particularly striking about South Africa’s diplomacy is its intellectual isolation and dearth of knowledge of contemporary thinking by noted experts in the field of foreign relations. They simply...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

@hlumela_halom This was the moment.. shame man.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

The ACJ shouldn't be giving press conferences - we must move away from politicizing the judiciary.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

I find it fascinating that the key argument advanced by key backers of Pres Ramaphosa - for him to stay - has zero policy content and is essentially 'the alternatives are worse'. The total absence of policy as a consideration is why the ANC as whole is in trouble.

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Ben Cronin

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19 days

Perhaps one of the strangest phenomena in SA is that small pool of typically urban elites who had always relied on ANC stability but never voted for it.

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Ben Cronin

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21 days

I don't know how often we have to say this, but if you do not provide a budget commensurate with an organ of state's mandate, then you inevitably get shortcomings in speed and delivery of public services. It's just obvious.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

Imagine literally giving your life to fight against Apartheid and to have a hospital named in your honour... ...only for that Hospital to be cynically underfunded, managed by a corrupt official - so that many future generations curse your name.

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Ben Cronin

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21 days

Framing the reduced speed of IEC's operations today as a failure is not fair. It has limited control over the conditions it will operate under given, the changes in law, and the budget it has to run the election. It faced increased complexity with a reduced budget.

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Ben Cronin

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19 days

I think it is safe to say that ANC policy under the Ramaphosa administration has been disastrous, and the ANC, which was already in decline, has been severely punished by voters. Persisting with austerity has been extremely costly.

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Ben Cronin

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26 days

South Africa has some remarkable civil servants - achieving with their legal team a groundbreaking ICJ ruling.

Chrispin Phiri 🇿🇦🇵🇸

@Chrispin_JPhiri

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[Watch] Director-General of the Department of International Relations and Co-Operation Mr Zane Dangor. South Africa's reaction to the ICJ ruling today.

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Ben Cronin

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3 months

When the inevitable breakaway party happens, the splinter group has got to be called Build One SA without Mmusi.

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@brettherron

3 months

Had no idea that the official name for BOSA is actually BOSAWMM… BUILD ONE SOUTH AFRICA WITH MMUSI MAIMANE. Maybe it’s just me…but it’s a little bit weird to have your name in the name of a political party?

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

The great upside to Elon Musk potentially acquiring Twitter is that finally the caricature white South African bad guy (in the Hollywood lexicon) will be upgraded from monosyllabic mercenary to Plutocratic plotter.

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19 days

Is it just me, or is there a bright future for lawyers in SA over the next 5 years?

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3 years

@Nickymcc2009 Shame man wait till he finds out London's mayor is also a Muslim. It's going to shatter his world view.

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10 months

This statement does not accurately reflect the rather obvious alleged breach namely the receipt of foreign bank notes. Whether the contractual terms were perfected or not is actually a side issue.

EWN Reporter

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10 months

The South African Reserve Bank has released its finds on the #PhalaPhala farm saga - says it could not conclude that there was any contravention of the exchange control regulations.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

@Peterman43 I support the sentiment Peter but you must report any establishment not paying a minimum wage - this would be a crime.

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Ben Cronin

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1 year

Fairly sensible proposals - the kinds of things a functional society would build around public transport.

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Gauteng taxi bosses want gyms, day care centres at taxi ranks across province

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Ben Cronin

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3 years

@thabileoka Thabi please unpack this for me. I am genuinely mystified. You have spent weeks arguing passionately that rand denominated public 'debt' is unsustainable. But now you are actively endorsing public debt denominated in a currency our gov can't issue?

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Ben Cronin

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3 years

The new dawn is over now it's high noon - so how about a proper New Deal. Let's.. - build some houses - reinvest in SOEs - get millions of young people into productive sectors - exploit the supply chain mess and manufacture some stuff

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Ben Cronin

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4 months

I don't understand this comparison - Navalny was an avowed extreme white nationalist. He was the very antithesis of former President Mandela.

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4 months

Something wicked

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If there was ever a term that should be outright banned, it's the deeply problematic notion that anyone could be 'unemployable'.

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2 months

Zimbabwe must accept the reality that the Rand is the only route to stabilize and to rebuild the country.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

@tito_mboweni This is where money comes from the: State via the SARB. You should know it has your signature on it...

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We need to arrest this political sub-culture developing of resorting to litigation as a campaign tool. The courts shouldn't be the arena for politics. Politicians should be out there showcasing policy making and public engagement.

DA wants Ramaphosa fined R200k, ANC docked 1% of its vote over his ‘veiled campaign’ national...

President Cyril Ramaphosa is being hauled to court over his last-minute address to the nation days before the elections.

www.timeslive.co.za

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Ben Cronin

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1 year

I really think we need to revisit this catch phrase - a 'Just Transition'. It has been terribly hollowed out and appropriated as a fig leaf for extremely problematic models centred on foreign debt dependence and private profit.

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Ben Cronin

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10 months

Parliamentary appropriations determine the financial capacity of gov departments and not the arbitrary limits NT suggests. Journalists must start to interrogate this false narrative - spending is an open discretion for our democratically elected reps.

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Ben Cronin

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5 months

This was the day I stopped following Thabi Leoka. I have no idea what transpired with her qualifications, but I still to this day do not understand why she was hyperbolic about rand denominated public 'debt' and yet appeared to actively promote foreign debt.

Ben Cronin

@BenjaminACronin

3 years

@thabileoka Thabi please unpack this for me. I am genuinely mystified. You have spent weeks arguing passionately that rand denominated public 'debt' is unsustainable. But now you are actively endorsing public debt denominated in a currency our gov can't issue?

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

I understand the conventional assumption that this is purely down to poor management/corruption but it is critical to understand that we are also not spending enough in order to avoid this.

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2 years

SA’s entire infrastructure is on the verge of total collapse via @TimesLIVE

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2 months

It appears we have reached the SMS stage of the WC campaign.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

The President in announcing measures to deal with private capture of the state announces the privatization of the NPAs operations... What is going on?

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Ben Cronin

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1 year

I think we must move away from framing transfers to SOEs as 'bailouts'. These entities are tasked with public functions and have incurred debt - often to the point of no longer being a going concern - in large part to try and meet these public obligations.

Nic Spaull

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1 year

In case you were wondering how much South Africa spends bailing out State Owned Enterprises: *R331-BILLION* between 2013 and 2022 (55% to Eskom). In 2023 it was R65-billion 😳😳😳 Source: @TreasuryRSA (2023: p8) via @PMG_SA

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Ben Cronin

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1 month

For the first two years, at least, the NHI fund's biggest expense is surely going to be lawyers.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

1/8 In the sea of things the President said in his SONA address one thing caught my eye - where he said: 'There are too many regulations in this country that are unduly complicated, costly and difficult to comply with. This prevents companies from growing and creating jobs' 🧵

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Ben Cronin

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Surely, there is no way the ANC leadership could sustainably enter into either a coalition or confidence/supply agreement with the DA? If the current pattern holds - the ANC will need to work with EFF and/or MK. Also, no gov can really be formed without the ANC.

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Ben Cronin

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2 months

Apparently according to the authors "South Africa’s concern about the rights of Palestinians is driven by its anti-Western view of Israel". The shared commitment to end Apartheid and our international obligations to prevent genocide are apparently not the key factors here.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

Key institutions across government are being defunded - the decline of government capacity is no mystery and would be occurring whatever the moral virtue of our current elected leadership. The first and most important step is to abandon senseless, self-imposed austerity.

Business Day

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State of SA is falling apart, says former Sars executive Ivan Pillay

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1 year

This has to be the peak caricature of President Ramaphosa's tenure announcing wide consultantion, devoid of purpose, and with inertia as the outcome.

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1 year

Over the last few days, I have held consultative meetings with representatives of labour, business, traditional leaders, religious leaders and the community constituency. I have also met with premiers, metro mayors and leaders of political parties.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

The aggression displayed - by many in the middle class in South Africa - towards civil servants is quite surprising. It's almost as if schools, hospitals and power plants can just work without dedicated professionals. Don't we all want and need a strong, capable civil service?

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1 year

The credibility of the National Gov is crumbling - it's really hard to understand what (if any) policy direction is driving this chaos.

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Ben Cronin

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2 months

If only former President Mbeki hadn't been seduced by Thatcherism - it would have been interesting to see what the ANC could have achieved under his leadership.

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1 year

As South Africans we do need to introspect about our relationship with Lesotho. We may be generous in the allocation of SACU tariffs, but in many respects the same pattern of extraction re Bantustans remains in place. 1/4

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Ben Cronin

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1 year

So, apparently neoliberals are not allowed to call each other comrade.

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@MbekezeliMB Very specifically at National Treasury.

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Ben Cronin

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9 months

I remain of the view that the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture should have been asking one specific questions - why is the state liquidating itself?

Ramaphosa to push ahead with cutting government's size to stabilise economy | News24

South Africa's R4.7 trillion "unsustainable public debt levels", including low growth rates, forced President Cyril Ramaphosa to consider cutting the government's size to stabilise the economy, the...

www.news24.com

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

The large mining companies in SA realised in the mid-80s that militant unions were not the worst case scenario for production - large scale wild cat strikes by non-unionised workers are much harder to resolve.

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The difference in economic policy between the national DA, Action SA, Bosa, and Rise is negligible. The tussle it would seem is more about identity and who is positioned as the legitimate centre right alternative to the ANC (albeit with largely the same policy as the ANC).

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@franstaar Not to mention the very skilled State Law Advisors briefing counsel.

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5 months

The problem with austerity being the central policy for the ANC is that NSFAS, social grants, etc ... are already disappearing under their administration.

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Ben Cronin

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3 years

@tumisole 💔 We must get answers as to why the TRC cases are not being prosecuted. I can't believe we are just waiting for time to rob is of the opportunity altogether.

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1 year

Love walking past my favourite UCT building every morning before I lecture:

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@AndreBothmaTax Andre, with respect, these are not axioms and should be interrogated. Taxes are really important policy instruments, but they are not a source of public issued money.

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Ben Cronin

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4 months

I suspect the thing that will attract many young (and not so young) voters to the Eff is that it appears to have the ambition to radically change people's living standards. Many of the other major parties seem to have abandoned this kind of ambition.

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Ben Cronin

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2 months

How does the US expect to maintain its declining hegemony if it is even prepared to go to war with the English language.

Arnaud Bertrand

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2 months

"Our veto against Palestinian statehood does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood" When you go full Orwellian doublespeak.

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I really don't understand why the National DA is scoring such an unnecessarily material own goal with just a few weeks to go before the election. The ANC was so vulnerable on this front... it's just crazy!

Democratic Alliance

@Our_DA

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To end poverty, we must enable young people to gain work experience and earn a wage! "We will introduce a Youth Employment Opportunity Certificate. This certificate will allow young people to opt out of the minimum wage." - @jsteenhuisen Full broadcast:

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

1/5 Reading State Capture Report 2, Vol 1 - again I am disappointed at the confusion that appears to have set in at the Commission. All the same omissions: failing to define state capture, duplicating the work of prosecutors and entirely missing the systemic issues. 🧶

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8 months

I'm going to have to send this to my students.

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4 months

One day, austerity will be written about as if it were a slightly unbelievable tragic comedy. The self sabotage is absurd and must come to an end soon.

News24 🇿🇦

@News24

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A group of 167 nurses is 'emotionally drained' from sitting at home after ostensibly being promised employment once they had written and passed their board exams.

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Ben Cronin

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3 years

As early info indicates extremely low turnout for #Elections2021 let us not forget the role of austerity in this election. Not just in apathy but for the process itself - the IEC itself indicated at the Moseneke Inquiry that austerity meant less registration drives:

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Ben Cronin

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4 months

In an election year you would imagine the President would perceive the need to give an impressive #SONA2024 , but it's less than underwhelming - the administration is committing to defunding public infrastructure, entrenching mechanisms for state capture, etc. Terrible.

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Ben Cronin

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3 years

When this Covid pandemic ends let's emerge as a more egalitarian society where paid work, at a living wage, is universally available - for unemployment has been our long-term pandemic.

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Ben Cronin

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After a barrage of DA-ANC thought pieces, no doubt the next phase is a slew of pieces questioning the Tripartheid Alliance and calling for a split - no doubt for the good of the country. But where on earth do ppl think the President's support base comes from?

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

1. The history of Huawei (HW) serves as an interesting example of Chinese industrial dev policies. Reading the Digital Silk Road - there are some facinating aspects to the state support the company received.🧶

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Ben Cronin

@BenjaminACronin

6 months

Imposing higher education requirements is likely regressive and classist. The more important step is professionalism in the civil service coupled with adequate resources allocated to departments (equivalent to their mandates).

Eyewitness News

@ewnupdates

6 months

ANC comrades now need post-matric qualifications for election into public office

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Ben Cronin

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@jnaidoo_econ No, I think the ANC voter base is very angry that the Gov is not investing in public infrustructure. Whether it's rail, ports, water, electricity, road or other infrustructure their has been dramatic under investment by the State.

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This can't surely be a statement from the @BLSA_Official ? Our gov bonds receive a direct charge and so the notion of 'insovency' risk is just fiction. This statement is reckless and inaccurate.

BLSA CEO Newsletter - 25 September 2023 – Business Leadership South Africa Hub

By Busisiwe Mavuso Investors are always forward looking. They want to understand the returns they will earn and the risks to those returns.

hub.blsa.org.za

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

Let's be frank - it doesn't matter who the ANC elects at the end of the year.. if the policy of austerity is maintained the party will simply end up carrying the can for reduced state capacity and likely continue to lose electoral support.

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2 years

The NPA has lost about a third of its prosecutors over the last 6 years due to austerity - the State Capture Commission's proposals are hollow in the face of continued austerity.

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Ben Cronin

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21 days

Friendly IEC officials, lovely weather, and great company - overall good voting experience.

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2 years

@daryl_swanepoel @StephenLangtry Aren't there ten directors (including nonexecutive) but only five executive directors?

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Ben Cronin

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Very proud of UCT team Luyanda Mtembu, Ropafadzo Zharare, and @HlumaniMSG competing in the @CALS_ZA PIL Moot held at the Constitutional Court.

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2 years

Is it the job of government to end unemployment? With two thirds of young people unemployed the government is either going to create enough paid work in its own currency or it should expect a revolution.

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Ben Cronin

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7 months

The Conservative Party is so green they are even recycling leaders - 90s Labour.

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1 year

@LisemeloM Not at all - Lesotho is a wonderful country. The people of Lesotho did not choose to be landlocked, but in SA our National Gov policy (chosen by our elected reps) chose to run Eskom into the ground.

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Ben Cronin

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2 years

1/9 Reading the Report on the July 2021 'Unrest' - the most interesting aspect is actually what's missing from the questions asked. Presidency set out 19 queries all mainly focused on the Gov's response to the 'Unrest'. None appear to expressly look into the underlying causes.

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1 year

The civil service is understaffed in almost every sphere relative to the demands placed on it - this false narrative of a bloated state is simply factually wrong.

You’re fired: We must drain public sector bloat – The Mail & Guardian

The public sector in South Africa is staffed with people – from professions to civil service and bureaucrats – who make citizens dread interacting with their government

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Ben Cronin

@BenjaminACronin

1 year

Those calling for Gwede Mantashe to be singled out and removed by the President do not understand the inner dynamics of the ANC.

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Ben Cronin

@BenjaminACronin

1 year

It is really important to note that it is not a 7.5% increase. Depending on pay scale this is more like a 2.8% increase in current spending (it just involves converting the cash gratuity into pensionable salary). Even if it was 7.5% - civil servants are behind 2019 in real terms

Giulietta Talevi

@GTalevi

1 year

The madness of Govt's 7.5% public sector wage offer when the @SAReserveBank is squeezing us like a monetary boa constrictor in order to anchor inflation expectations between 3% and 6% - ie 4.5%! Argh, @PresidencyZA . Read the damned room

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Ben Cronin

@BenjaminACronin

3 years

The Rome Statute, which gave rise to the ICC, specifically lists Apartheid in Article 7(1)(j) as a crime against humanity. So there would appear overwhelming evidence internationally to the contrary.

SABC News Radio

@SABCNews_Radio

3 years

FF Plus leader, Pieter Groenewald says apartheid should be looked at in context - and says whether the era was a crime against humanity cannot be answered simply.

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Ben Cronin

@BenjaminACronin

1 year

We must roll Eskom and other SOEs like Transnet back into the fiscus. The notion of stand alone public 'enterprises' functioning on a payfor model has been tried and it has failed.

Fiscus must refurbish Eskom plants, electricity minister says

Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says lack of investment will only lead to more load-shedding

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Ben Cronin

@BenjaminACronin

8 months

No, consecutive FinMins have abused the discretion to limit spending to such an extent that we now face an extreme social crisis. The fiscal cliff is just a notional concept, but the millions of abandoned SAns are real.

Tito Mboweni

@tito_mboweni

8 months

The mind boggles why the authorities do not seem to comprehend that we are approaching a Fiscal Crisis ! The debt/gdp ratio is scary!!

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