ANC’s attack on Solly Malatsi shows how BEE dogma trumps economic reality

ANC’s attack on Solly Malatsi shows how BEE dogma trumps economic reality

Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT If you needed a case study in political point-scoring trumping sober analysis, look no further than the ANC’s broadside on Saturday against communications minister Solly Malatsi’s policy directive on equity equivalent investment programmes (EEIPs). The party’s statement – framed as a defence of transformation and parliamentary authority – comes…

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US ranchers whiplashed by Trump’s beef policies | Business and Economy News

US ranchers whiplashed by Trump’s beef policies | Business and Economy News

It has been a whiplash-inducing month for the American rancher, one of United States President Donald Trump’s most steadfast voting blocs. Starting with an October 19 quip from Trump that the US would increase beef imports from Argentina to the ensuing rancher backlash against the announcement of an investigation into the hyperconsolidated US meatpacking industry…

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Zelenskyy says Trump’s Ukraine plan must ensure ‘real and dignified peace’ | Russia-Ukraine war News

Zelenskyy says Trump’s Ukraine plan must ensure ‘real and dignified peace’ | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is working on a proposal from the United States to end the Russia-Ukraine war, as Kyiv faces growing pressure from Washington and sustained attacks by Russian forces on the battlefield nearly four years into the conflict. Zelenskyy said on Friday that he discussed US President Donald Trump’s plan in…

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