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29th of November 2017
20 Questions the ANC must answer during their December Elective Conference (so that we can return to 2018 upbeat).
By Steuart Pennington
I was interested to read an article by Yacoob Abba Omar, head of strategy and communications at the Banking Association South Africa where he poses 12 questions the ANC needs to answer. I agree with most of them – and have added 8 of my own (see below).
He writes, “As South Africa hurtles towards the end of the year, we are holding our collective breath ahead of the ANC elective conference.
“After December” or “let’s see what happens at the conference” are the kinds of things heard not only in our households, in Parliament or in boardrooms, but also on the airwaves and among commuters.
This is testimony to the centrality of the ANC in society. At the same time, it expresses a hope — ANC member or not — that this venerable organisation will get its act together and clear up its internal mess. Or in ANC parlance, “self-correct”.
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WELCOME HOME TO THE TURMOIL AND HOPE
A LETTER TO MY SISTER WHO IS ABOUT TO RETURN TO SOUTH AFRICA HAVING LIVED IN BRITAIN FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS:
Dear M,
Your decision to come home is such a great one – not that I am biased! It’s a very exciting time to be in South Africa, though it’s not for the faint-hearted. So, as you make plans to come back home for good, I wanted to give you my thoughts on the “state of our nation”.
From all you will have heard and read, things will appear significantly worse in South Africa. To some extent they are. But you should know that the most important difference between where we are now and where we were say last month or even last year, is that the rot is pouring out into the open in a way that it has never done before. This is thanks to people like Jacques Pauw who wrote The President’s Keepers, NGO amaBhungane and The Daily Maverick who exposed #GuptaLeaks, Adriaan Basson and Pieter Du Toit who wrote Enemy of The People. The list of people bravely exposing Zuma, the Guptas and the stench of corruption and state capture is long and growing.
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KAMERS/Makers SUMMER 2017 IRENE SHOW
KAMERS/Makers is set to close our ‘Year of Making Good’ with a blockbuster Pretoria show at the ever-popular Southdowns College venue in Irene/Centurion.
We are featuring a record-breaking 170 plus Makers at this show – our biggest selection ever! And even more exciting for our shoppers is the fact that more than 50 of these Makers are brand new… really living up to the KAMERS/Makers mantra of ‘The coolest stuff you’ve never seen.’
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THIS WEEK'S FAST FACT
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According to the Establishment Survey 2017, just under one third of South African adults (15+) live in rural areas. In the past 7 days, 90% of rural dwellers have watched TV, 86% have listened to the radio, 17% have read a newspaper and 6% have read a magazine. (Establishment Survey 2017) (Source: www.Eighty20.co.za)
