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Today's Briefing
Columns
The Legacy Media Is Getting a Lot Wrong About the November Elections
As South Africa’s local government elections draw near, legacy media reporting becomes increasingly ignorant and misleading.

Politics
South Africans Back the US Against the Government on BEE and EWC
Washington has put black economic empowerment and expropriation at the centre of its concerns with South Africa — and South Africans are taking Washington's side.
Politics
Court Blocks Government’s Most Prescriptive Racial Procurement Regime Yet
The Constitutional Court has struck down the Public Procurement Act, stopping a new system that would have deepened mandatory race-based procurement requirements across hundreds of state institutions at great cost to the economy and South Africa's people.
Columns
Agricultural Business Confidence Up but Future Concerns Remain
There is much positive sentiment in South Africa's agriculture sector but there are a number of serious risks lurking.
Politics
ANC “Always” Supported Meritocratic, Depoliticised Public Service – No, It Did Not
The ANC now claims it always championed a meritocratic, depoliticised public service, but its own record of cadre deployment and rejection of merit tell a very different story.
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