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Executive pay. As the globe struggles to emerge from the worst recession since the 1930s, it is one of the hottest topics under debate.

Organised crime and corruption have existed in partnership from time immemorial. Some would argue that this has been so for as long as man has engaged in economics.

The reported remarks by president Jacob Zuma that there are too many privately owned firearms in circulation, creates questions about governments’ true intentions with the Firearms Control Act (Act 60 of 2000).

They say that statistics are like bikinis - more important for what they conceal than for what they reveal.

The DA has warned for over a decade that cadre deployment is the root cause of the “failed state”.

Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that one of the peculiar difficulties facing a commander in war was the absence of objective knowledge at his disposal.

Recent misery in east Africa exposes the troubling nature of Land Affairs Minister Nkwinti’s recent statements suggesting that if so-called land reform in South Africa didn’t increase pace, then the government might have to enact “Zimbabwe” policies of government confiscation and redistribution.

For fifteen years South Africans have been able to freely elect their government. But many communities, such as that in Sakhile outside Standerton, behave as if the ANC is an illegitimate regime.

Governments often introduce legislation because it feels so right, yet end up causing untold misery. Lord Milner wielded great power over South Africa’s citizens before and after the Anglo-Boer war.

After observing the searching hearings conducted by Parliament’s portfolio committee on communications of the candidates for selection to the SABC governing board, most of the country appears to have accepted those nominated as competent and fit for the demands that will be made of them.

Joe Mcgluwa, the ID Spokesperson for Sport, says Athletics South Africa (ASA) boss Leonard Chuene has treated Caster Semenya in a chauvinistic manner and objectified her in front of the whole sporting world.

The sequel to the pre-Polokwane battle for the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) is upon us. Some will refer to the current phase of the twis as “the battle for the soul of the ANC”.

S ince May 2008 South Africans have watched an unseemly and often confusing legal wrangle between what appear to be sectional interests in the legal profession.

T soeu Petlane talks about the recent elections in Gabon.