Author: Setumo Stone

News, Politics

Ramaphosa defends his plan for a National Water Crisis Committee

President Cyril Ramaphosa has doubled down on his governing model of crisis “command centres”, defending the National Energy Crisis Committee (NECOM) as the... Read more.
Ramaphosa
Big Reads, Politics

‘Now is not the time to abandon BEE,’ says President Cyril Ramaphosa

President Cyril Ramaphosa has thrown down the gauntlet to Parliament’s critics of black economic empowerment, insisting that transformation remains central to... Read more.
Mathale testifies before the ad hoc committee
Big Reads, Politics

President Cyril Ramaphosa warns GNU ministers to stop claiming party wins

President Cyril Ramaphosa has set firm boundaries on the operation of the government of national unity (GNU), warning ministers and deputy ministers not to use government... Read more.
Empowerment
Columns

Retire the word ‘tenderpreneur,’ or recalibrate

Ravin Singh’s ANC Today column last week, The Fiction of the ANC Businessman, raises a separate point that deserves serious consideration: the continued use of... Read more.
Why NSFAS is always found wanting 
News, Politics

Fasiha Hassan calls for beneficiation push and youth jobs in SONA debate

ANC MP and former #FeesMustFall activist Fasiha Hassan pressed for urgent action on youth unemployment, faster mineral beneficiation and cheaper energy during parliament’s... Read more.
Investment conference set to unlock Limpopo’s economic potential  
Politics

Phophi Ramathuba hails Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘visible progress’

Limpopo Premier Phophi Ramathuba has voiced strong support for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), telling parliament that improving... Read more.
Politics

Cyril Ramaphosa’s time in office might be worst than nine wasted years

EFF chief whip in the National Assembly Nontando Nolutshungu says the government had failed to confront the scale of violence affecting ordinary South Africans,... Read more.
MK Party blasts Ramaphosa's SONA
Politics

MK Party’s Edward Nzimande blasts SONA as ‘illusion’ masking joblessness

MK Party member of the National Council of Provinces, Edward Nzimande, accused the administration of President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday of offering “rhetoric... Read more.