Ramaphosa’s economic programme more a rescue than a stimulus
Economists have poured cold water on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic stimulus programme. They say the measures the South African President outlined to the media in Pretoria yesterday (Friday) contain no new injection of money into the economy that slipped into recession last month. At best it can be termed a recovery programme. President Cyril Ramaphosa […]
Tanzanian president orders arrests after ferry sinks
Tanzania’s President John MMagafuli’s ordered the arrest of the operators of the ferry that sank in Lake Victoria leaving at least 141 dead and scores still missing. He says the MY Nyerere was overcrowded and there negligence involved it is capsizing. It’s unclear exactly how many people rescuers have saved from the water of Lake […]
Gonzo journalist became a grumpy old man
“How The Hell Did This Happen,” by P.J. O’Rourke It is a sobering realisation having a cult satirist from one’s youth become a grumpy commentator about to notch up the three score plus ten. P.J. O’Rourke is an obligation like Meryl Streep. Their name appears on the dustcover or marquee and one has no option […]
Still pointed after all these years
“The World Is Flat – A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY,” BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. 13 years after publication, this remains on of the most important books I have read. In the year of first publication it won the Economist Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Updates annually until 2008 were presumably […]