Business

Airlines worldwide are pleading with governments to re-open the airways so foreign travel can resume without the restrictions that are still hobbling international business and tourism.

The restrictions imposed on economic activity by the government provided the final proof of the importance of the private sector and the pre-eminent part it plays in the welfare of everyone.

Anyone saving for their retirement by contributing to a pension fund should be alarmed by Minister Tito Mboweni’s sworn statement to the Court regarding the government’s proposed financing of a SAA bailout.

It has taken six years, but at last a new law to control those who would access our personal information without permission, is operational. The new measures hope to stop the invasions of our privacy that have accompanied our entry into the digital world.

We now have a Presidential State-Owned Enterprise Council given the monumental task of making all 740 State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s), including Eskom, “effective instruments for economic development”.