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Brendan Seery, well said in your column on Mbaks on Monday. His various failed deployments are in line with the old adage: if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.
Peter C
South African Brad Binder for MotoGP next season. Watch out, Marquez!
Rossi fan
Goose bumps once again seeing SA flag being waved in Valencia. Well done to Brad Binder by wining Moto2 GP, making it a hat-trick of wins. Hopefully he will do well stepping up to MotoGP next season.
José
The election of John Steenhuisen as interim leader of the DA is a backwards move that will cost the DA black votes. They will become another white party that has no black interests. The DA has scored an own goal by electing Helen Zille and that decision will change their course of history forever.
Simphiwe
With no thanks to the unions, SAA will soon hit the ground. And then there will be another 3 500-plus unemployed souls wandering around.
John Bam
I think it is high time for Cyril Ramaphosa to declare all unions and their leaders as criminals for breaking the law because – just think about it – that is what they do.
Albert Kraay
SAA seems to run at a loss of R5 billion per year. With just over 5 000 staff, that amounts to just under R1 million loss per staff member per year. That cannot be sustained.
James
South African-born Lord
Peter Hain, a former British
MP, explained succinctly to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture where the money is that Sars requires to meet its budget and bailouts. All Sars has to do is to make a massive effort to recover it by engaging with banks and the consultants identified by Lord Hain. It will not happen on its own.
Ronnie
Don’t credit rating firms use similar criteria when they assess countries? Why is Moody’s so out of kilter with S&P and Fitch when it assesses South Africa?
JP
Steenhuisen reminds one of an irritating flea in an elephant’s ear.
Jenny Downs
Dear Minister of Trade and Industry, signing a trade deal with the United States is a big no-no considering the near destruction of the chicken industry just recently. Does the ANC really want to create jobs? I think not. Andrew