Dick Forslund responds to Mike Schüssler and Tim Cohen Again a report hit the front pages of both Business Day and Business Report (May 7 2012). “South Africa cannot afford South Africans” was prepared on behalf of the trade union UASA by Mike Schüssler...
How far can artists go in satirising or sending up the powerful? That is the essence of the brouhaha over Brett Murray’s contentious The Spear painting depicting President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed in a pose reminiscent of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin....
The Business Report is not a place to trade insults, as Mike Schussler does in his xenophobic piece “Putting data in someone else’s study is untruthful” (4/6). As Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) we are interested in stimulating a real debate on...
Youth labour more attractive, but in abundant supply The campaign for a youth wage subsidy fits well with the “common sense” truth in the business press that ordinary wages are too high and unions are too strong. The youth wage subsidy is just “an entry point to a...
Unless reliable, quantifiable data is publicly available, reports cannot be taken seriously. The employment report by Mike Schussler (“The unemployed are the real poor”, Mail & Guardian, June 8 to 14) has sparked a heated debate about labour cost development and...
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