By BO Staff Writer The Competition Commission has cracked down on three pharmaceutical companies for price fixing relating to the cancer treatment prices. The Commission has initiated separate investigations against Roche Holding AG (Roche), Pfizer Inc (Pfizer) and Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd (Aspen). Roche is a Swiss-owned company which is the second largest pharmaceutical company …
By Phapano Phasha Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966. Whilst Prime Minister in 1962, he was quoted in Parliament as saying, “Mr Oppenheimer with all that monetary power and with his powerful machine which is spread all over the whole country he can, if he so chooses, exercise an enormous influence against the government and …
By BO Staff Writer Today, Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant‚ presented the 17th Employment Equity report in Pretoria where she said she is considering harsher consequences for companies which are slow to transform. The Employment Equity report shows a glaring truth – that white people own, manage and control the South African economy. “Black people‚ women …
By BO Staff Writer Today, the Black First Land First (BLF) movement submitted it’s contribution to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance. In it’s submission the movement highlighted its ideas on the transformation of the financial sector and how to it wishes to “end white monopoly capital to ensure economic liberation of all.” The session …
By BO Staff Writer The newly appointed Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba, has distanced himself from radical comments made by his advisor, Professor Chris Malikane, in an opinion piece he penned recently. The wrote the following statement to appeal to the minister to listen to the prudent advise of Prof Malikane. Read the full statement below: …
By Matt Agorist Trevor Manuel is allegedly the mastermind behind the anti-Zuma pro-imperialist coup attempts that saw two marches in the last two weeks and a call for a motion of no confidenceagainst President Jacob Zuma. Manuel is the go to man for money and ideas. He is linked directly to imperialism and dirty money …
By Yamkela Spengane I am on a self-imposed sabbatical as far as public commentary on current affairs and politics is concerned. What time I would have spent on these matters I spend in things that give me much more peace, like working on cosmological problems in a cyclic universe, and conceptualising hypercars and autonomous vehicle …
Dear President Zuma It has been nearly two years since I had an opportunity to address you. To be precise, on 12 August 2015 I penned a column while I was editor of The Citizen in which I apologized to you for being part of a media-driven agenda that sought your downfall. Well, this time …
By BO Staff Writer The Head of Treasury and Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, has been looting the Military Veterans Special Pension Fund between 2009 and 2014. Gordhan is the current Minister of Finance. He was also the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, serving from 2014–2015. He previously also held the Minister of Finance …
By Andile Mngxitama This is the text of the keynote address delivered by Andile Mngxitama on 08 March 2017 in Durban at the launch of the Black Business Campaign of the National Funeral Practitioners Association of South Africa.
