Following internal debate within the ANC between Finance Minister Tito Mboweni  and Secretary General Ace Magashule, the party has decided to abandon nationalising the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb).

Whoa, we’re burning police vans now? I refuse to believe that honest, hard-working, law-abiding, food-providing farmers could do something so barbaric.

Die irrasionele vraag oor hoe ver ‘n hond in ‘n bos in kan hardloop lyk op die oog af onoplosbaar, maar het tog ‘n antwoord. Die antwoord is halfpad, want daarna is hy besig om uit te hardloop.

George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm” gave birth to the oft-repeated affirmation that equality is an admirable aspiration but that it is virtually unattainable. Some are more equal than others, it was implied.

At the beginning of October, the department of public works and infrastructure published the Expropriation Bill in the Government Gazette along with an explanatory memorandum.

South Africa — A young white farm manager was found earlier this month strangled and tied to a pole on a farm in the eastern part of the Free State province, police said. Two Black men were accused of the murder.

Optimism is probably South Africans’ most ironic quality — and an asset you would imagine it would be foolish to take for granted.

Die regering is weereens besig om landbou te faal deur die Vrystaatse en Noord-Kaapse brande – waar weiding, diere en opstalle vernietig is – nie tot ‘n ramp te verklaar nie.

TLU SA does not believe that the minister of finance, Mr Tito Mboweni’s economic plans are the correct route to turn the South African economy around. The economy could only be built up again if the private sector is allowed to provide momentum and not by continuing to create an unfavourable investment climate.

Dit is amptelik die jaar 2021- 'n Nuwe jaar wat voor die wereld le. Jy is deel van hierdie jaar- met 365  dae van geleenthede om aan te gryp.

Dear Mr Ramaphosa- With 2020 behind us and the new year in full swing, it’s an excellent time to evaluate where we are in our lives – in our personal circumstances, families and work, and of course also in the context of South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa told the ANC at the start of the year that passing legislation to allow for land expropriation without compensation is a priority for the ruling party this year

The number of companies in business rescue is set to spike in 2021 as the effects of continued Covid-19 trading restrictions bring businesses that may have held on last year to their knees.

Die jongste uitsprake oor die Nasionale Ontwikkelingsplan (NOP) van die ANC-regering wat suiwer op sy vernietigende ideologie van sosialisme baseer is en reeds na 1994 implementeer is, is steeds vernietigend en nie verouderd nie," sê Fanie Brink, 'n onafhanklike landbou-ekonoom. 

The African National Congress (ANC) is using the ‘emotive issue of land dispossession as cover for doing what the apartheid government did: destroying property rights to the detriment of millions’, the IRR has warned.

"Die staatsrede van president Cyril Rampahosa wat hy gisteraand in die parlement gelewer het was presies niks anders as die voortsetting van die ANC-regering se vernietigende sosialistiese ideologie nie met dieselfde totaal onhaalbare vooruitsigte en beloftes as voorheen wat reeds 'n totale bankrot regering en 'n mislukte staat tot gevolg het," sê Fanie Brink, 'n onafhanklike landbou-ekonoom. 

Frans Cronje lays out scenarios for how South Africa may look after the 2024 election and Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan comment on how likely they believe each scenario to be.

Using taxpayers’ money for the benefit of select sectors of South Africa’s citizenry has become a routine modus operandi  for president Cyril Ramaphosa and his colleagues.

"The talks on the 'beginning of the rebuild of the country that is falling apart and the priorities for the country that need urgent attention' on which consensus has been reached 'by joining forces in every area of ​​life on the ground working together for a better future’ will, like all previous talks in this regard, yield no solutions or any results,” says Fanie Brink, an independent agricultural economist.

According to the prevailing official narrative, little if anything is more important than ‘the land question’.