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SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: South Africa, the patient, is dying
The patient, the SA economy, is choking from lack of electricity. Among all our many problems, generating sufficient electricity is the most urgent and critical
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Faster we go into the abyss
Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, is planning for GDP growth of 10.8% for the fiscal year ending June 2020. SA, on the other hand, is on course to report another economic recession
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: The taxi driver and the thief
In this theatre of fools it is not the managers that matter. It is the director and scriptwriter at the top of government that is the problem
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Mpondo’s appointment null and void
Without approval from parliament and the National Treasury, Prasa administrator Bongisizwe Mpondo’s appointment is null and void
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Economic Fantasy Fighters
The party led by Julius Malema believes it has a solution to the problems of collapsed state entities that have dragged the economy down with them
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: A backward law on the land
Signing the Traditional & Khoi-San Leadership Bill into law grabs the land rights of 18-million people who live in communal areas and hands them to a bunch of rarely accountable men
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Myth of SA exceptionalism
The cocky South African who a decade ago vowed never to eat seafood in Africa has been humbled
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Two letters to the president
If I were finance minister I would take two letters with me to an urgent meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Deadline is the first step in Eskom unbundling
Should the end-March deadline be met for the separation of the transmission unit, Gordhan should then move to open Eskom’s old power stations for sale to private investors
SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: A train to nowhere driven by a bunch of losers
As SA hurtles down the road of a completely failed state, politicians haven’t stopped trying to kill off the parts that still work




















