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Dear President Zuma, I found donkey in my burger. Disappointed Dear Disappointed, I can understand why you feel the way you do. After all, I find caviar in my sushi, Johnny Walker Blue in my Coke and gold coins in my Sunday pudding. For me, every day is Christmas....
February 14, 2013 The hyenas awake! (Apologies to actually existing hyenas, who are deeply impressive and sexually progressive beasts apart from their scrawny hind-legs.) The cannibals are sharpening their carving-knives! The vultures circle in the sunset! The...
Unemployed People's Movement Press Statement Marikana Massacre Memorial Service in Grahamstown A memorial service for all who fell in the Marikana Massacre will be held in the Anglican Cathedral in Grahamstown on Thursday 30 August 2012 at 4:00 p.m. People of all...
European Union's 2010 greenhouse gas emissions rise of 2.4% blamed on cold winter and economic recovery in some areas Greenhouse gas emissions for the European Union increased in 2010, despite the economic recession and policies intended to tackle climate change. The...
Friday’s disastrous US jobs report, which showed the worst payrolls growth in a year, capped a week of dismal economic news from every part of the world. These developments reveal that claims of an economic recovery are not only premature but utterly fictitious....
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 from...
Originally in Business Day, 2012-03-05 Adcorp’s method of measuring employment "generates such massive employment levels that it does away with SA’s unemployment problem in one fell swoop, lowering the unemployment rate to around 5%", write Dr Kerr and Prof Wittenberg...
The economic crisis that has shaken the world may have started in Wall Street but it has been made much worse by the actions of both the European institutions and European member states. Much of the so-called debt crisis was caused not by states spending too much, but...
The Occupy Wall Street movement has captured much the nation’s attention with a clear message: A U.S. economy driven by the interests of business and the wealthy has generated increasingly unequal economic outcomes where the top 1 percent did exceptionally well but...