June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
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October 29, 2019
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October 29, 2019
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As governments across Africa begin to come to terms with the economic and human realities of the 2019 coronavirus disease, African Liberty brings you expert opinions on how government policies could help or worsen the already chaotic dire unprecedented situation.
For a keen political observer, here is an observation about the global political scene that you cannot easily repudiate. Populist demagogues with a tendency to poke holes at social conventions are no longer playing a marginal role in politics; they …
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One thing makes me smile when I think constitutional democracy – an elected government that shows unwavering love for its citizens. In perfect liberal or social democracies, elected governments fear citizens. The State submits itself to the whims and idiosyncrasies …
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Tomorrow, the Finance Minister will appear in Parliament to seek authorization for his spending plans for the rest of the year. As is our custom, he shall also be asking that members ratify spending the Government has already made.
There …
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Al Capone is one of the most infamous criminals in history. Countless books and movies have elevated his name to a level that even during his lifetime, few imagined possible. His crime-syndicate, the “Chicago Outfit” fought bloody gang wars over …
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This week was crucial in the stand-off between Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) Minister Pravin Gordhan for the future of failed, the state-owned airline, South African Airlines (SAA). This preposterous attempt to resurrect SAA, …
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South Africa’s government-imposed COVID-19 lockdown was supposedly instituted to buy the government time to manage the spread of the virus and to allow the public healthcare sector to prepare its own facilities adequately for an increase in COVID-19 cases. But …
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Only did I discover early in my ‘political career’ how constitution-making or constitutionalism is not as an exact body of critique as rocket science. However, bizarre human emotions, unfulfilled expectations, scandals, deceptions, corruption, and intrigue encountered in the topography of …
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The negative effects of South Africa’s hard lockdown continue to reverberate through the economy and broader society. The latest flashpoint has been in the taxi industry, specifically in Gauteng, where the South African National Taxi Council (SANTANCO) started the week …
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Finance Minister, Tito Mboweni, started his emergency budget speech by alluding to the two solutions the government must implement: stabilizing debt and reducing the deficit. Alas, the initial spark of hope soon died. According to Mboweni, almost half of all …
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On 10 June, Professor Pierre de Vos, the Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at the University of Cape Town, published a blog post titled Privilege and Inheritance: Time to Disrupt Intergeneration Transfers of Wealth. It garnered …
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