Posted March 4, 2011 By Jonathan Jansen Anyone who thinks that Jimmy Manyi, after his comments about coloured people, is simply an aberration on the post-apartheid landscape is hugely mistaken. Manyi, like Butana Komphela, is merely saying the kinds of outrageous things that many of his ilk among the powerful (and the restless, economically disenfranchised [...]
Posted March 2, 2011 By Tony Ehrenreich Racist statement against coloureds condemned in the strongest terms COSATU is outraged at the manner in which the Employment Equity legislation has been drafted, that gives the impression that Coloureds would lose their jobs in droves in the Western Cape. We are concerned at the Department of Labour [...]
Post February 28, 2011 By David Shapiro At one of the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meetings I attended, Warren Buffett tackled a question about joining the board of directors of companies in much the same way Groucho Marx voiced his reservations about club membership. The comedian confessed that he would never join a club that [...]
Post March 1, 2011 By Zara Nicholson The Black Management Forum has warned “anti-transformation forces” to keep their hands off president Jimmy Manyi, and said it “stands by the correct context” of Manyi’s remarks on an “over-supply” of coloureds in the Western Cape. Manyi’s remarks were widely condemned by opposition parties and the ANC but [...]
Posted February 28, 2011 As young people in South Africa we cannot really claim to have fought for liberation, although we are the ones who stand to benefit the most. Others fought on our behalf because we didn’t really understand what was going on. Our parents, their parents and their parents before fought for freedom. [...]
