If there were ever a time for the “employment” part of Thulas Nxesi’s job to come into play, it would be now. The expanded unemployment rate stands at 43.1% and further job losses seem likely. But 18 months after the mandate of “employment” was attached to his...
When Tito Mboweni was 21 years old in 1980, he undertook to fight the apartheid regime. He initially wanted to take up arms, but, as he told David Pilling in 2019 in an interview for the Financial Times, one old sage told him he wasn’t ready and “when all the fighting...
There is little else Zweli Mkhize has been able to deal with in the past year besides confront Covid-19. Only nine months into the post, Mkhize had to deal with a pandemic that has killed millions of people globally. South Africa did not seem prepared. He made a...
