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Opstoker 16 May 2012 4:24 pmDe Klerk's oft-trumpeted "apology" for apartheid was always a qualified one: insofar as some people may have been hurt, we are sorry. What I take further exception to is his outrageous characterisatio...
Opstoker 16 May 2012 4:14 pmIan, a simple question: is the operation viable without a taxpayers' subsidy? For any government to pump such amounts of capital into what is essentially a commercial agricultural enterprise amounts t...
GM 16 May 2012 3:53 pmIan Crawford. Ex General Manager Magwa 24th September 2004 to 24th September 2011. I go on record that Magwa did not recieve R42m in June 2011 and the R17.5M allocated for 2010 was diverted on the 16t...
Dave Rankin 16 May 2012 1:21 pmWell done! Proof that barriers to success are all in the mind. If you have the passion you can do anything....
Dave Rankin 16 May 2012 12:46 pmLet's assume that the complainers get the apology they want, what will they do that they are not doing now? The simple answer is 'nothing'. Wake up dear complainers! De Klerk doesn't even know you ...
Tronn 16 May 2012 11:57 amWell done Helen Zille.Cosatu have shown the world what they think of democracy and freedom of speech.They have now drawn first blood and will have to face the consequences. ...
Dave Rankin 16 May 2012 9:43 am"A mechanism had to be found to deal with councils hell-bent on defying the department as BCM had done, he added." There is such a mechanism, it's called rule of law. That the ANC-led government lac...
Dave Rankin 16 May 2012 9:39 amNot that marches do any good. In e-tolling, for example, COSATU marched in protest and OUTA (or whatever the people against urban tolling call themselves) took the matter to court. We all know who a...
Dave Rankin 16 May 2012 9:31 amWhen COSATU has a march, usually accompanied by ill-discipline, vandalism and destruction of property, they are "exercising their democratic right." When the DA has a march (wisely or not) aren't the...
stone 15 May 2012 3:59 pmLand reform in South Africa is a hot debate and different people have diffrent opinions on the matter. A new book entitled "Perspectives on South Africa's Land Reform" brings together those views, ide...
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