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Social Grants and Unemployment Insurance During The Lockdown
After reviewing the special government cash transfers to households in order to help them through the lockdown, this brief summarizes available information on ...
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Social Security and Opportunity: Growing the Economic Cake
In this brief the concept of increasing social security is looked at as being complimentary rather than opposed to economic growth. The author argues that in ...
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Some Notes on Sovereignty
The Helen Suzman Foundation has already written about the Constitutional Court’s decision in Government of Zimbabwe v Fick. In this brief, we look at whether ...
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SORTING OUT MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
This brief reviews the Minister of Health's comments on the Medical Malpractice Issues in the Health Sector and responses to such comments
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SOUTH AFRICA’S NOUVELLE CUISINE: SLICING AND DICING PROPERTY RIGHTS
Historically, redistribution of assets has taken a number of forms. It may take place at the end of a war or as an outcome of a revolution. It may be the ...
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SOUTH AFRICA AND THE RATINGS AGENCIES - II FITCH
The first brief in this series discussed the current view of the South African economy held by Moody’s rating agency. The next brief will set out the position ...
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South Africa and the African Growth and Opportunity Act II : The game of ‘chicken’ and calling our bluff
As part of the out of cycle review of South Africa’s eligibility under AGOA, a call for comments was included. The American Chamber of Commerce in South ...
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South Africa and the African Growth and Opportunity Act I : Much ado about chicken
A fifteen-year poultry trade dispute between South Africa and the US came to a head recently. Relations thawed, and the US gave our government a 60-day ...
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SOUTH AFRICA AND THE RATINGS AGENCIES - I MOODY'S
South Africa is in the middle of controversies relating to the SA Revenue Service, the Hawks, the Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan, the National Treasury, ...
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SOUTH AFRICA AND THE RATINGS AGENCIES - III STANDARD & POOR'S
The first two briefs in this series discussed the views of the rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch, on the South African economy. This is the final brief in ...
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