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When young Americans grow up, rarely do you hear them being excited about going to study in Europe when they leave school. Why would they be? They have world-class universities and immense opportunities at home. It is not uncommon, however, …
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South African Airways’ sometimes-controversial CEO, Vuyani Jarana, has resigned. When the news broke on Sunday, many were caught by surprise, perhaps because it follows only a week after the resignation of another state-owned enterprise (SOE) CEO, Eskom’s Phakamani Hadebe. The …
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Stats SA recently announced South Africa’s unemployment rate has increased to 27.6 percent. The expanded rate increased to 38 percent, which translates to 9,994,000 unemployed people. It’s a wonder that SA’s unemployment rate isn’t above 45 percent at this point—SA’s …
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The South African government published the Tourism Amendment Bill on April 12. If this had happened on April 1, one could have believed that it was an April Fool’s Joke, so comical is the logic underlying the bill. The amendment, …
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South African Airways (SAA) is a bloated and inefficient state-owned enterprise. If the government listened to reason rather than empty rhetoric, SAA could emulate the post-privatization successes of Kenya Airlines.
Like SAA, Kenya Airways was a state enterprise owned by …
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Discovery CEO Adrian Gore mentioned at the recent Leadership Summit that there is an element of “declinism” – a pessimism about the state of one’s country – in South Africa, and that it did not accurately represent the situation facing …
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