by CWIM | Jul 2, 2015 | Current, Economics
The Greek debt crisis has been dragging on for so long that it seems an eternity. They have almost been as long in a crisis mode in the European monetary union as “out of crisis mode”. Considering that the debt burden is 340 billion Euro, they have a serious question...
by CWIM | Feb 18, 2015 | Current, Economics
As the dust settles over a stormy night of politics in South Africa, the new dawn that so many of us were hoping for to revive this frail economy has not materialized. Instead Zuma gave a speech in which he hardly mentioned the National Development Plan, their well...
by CWIM | Nov 3, 2014 | Current, Economics
The Oxfam inequality reports once again shows that South Africa is the most unequal society in the world. The two richest people are as wealthy as the poorest 50%. These are worrying figures, and the contributing factors are clearly many. In summary it shows that we...
by CWIM | Jun 27, 2014 | Current, Economics, News
The new land reforms set out by the Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti caused a fair amount of up-roar and rightly so. The land reform set out that half of big farms should be handed to the workers on the farm, with the longest serving workers...
