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DUBLIN – There’s no doubt that South African schools face a lot of challenges. In a global benchmarking exercise, South Africa placed 75th out of 76 countries on the quality of its education system. Part of the problem is a persistent inequality in resources dating back to apartheid. The corrupt and abusive South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) must also shoulder part of the blame, as a high-level ministerial report outlined. The Institute of Race Relations, right-leaning local think tank, believes that desperate times call for desperate measures. They are proposing a school voucher programme to try to a force change in the troubled system. School vouchers are a controversial idea in many parts of the world. In this interview, Marius Roodt explains the IRR’s campaign and what it hopes to achieve. – Felicity Duncan

JOHANNESBURG — Earlier this month, there was a flurry of coverage about South Africa's 'first cryptocurrency' ATM having been installed at a Spar grocery store in Randburg by a company called 'Vendibit'. Headlines from several publications published earli

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Crime and corruption are two of the biggest challenges facing South Africa today, and no one knows them like investigative journalist Mandy Wiener. Her books and investigations have exposed the web of interconnections that link South Africa’s top cops with its top crime bosses. But despite her experience of the seamier side of life in South Africa, Wiener is refreshingly optimistic. She believes that South Africa’s citizens and leadership have the power to untangle the knot of corruption in law enforcement. It will just take a lot of work and dedication.

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As the fallout from the collapse of Steinhoff continues, many of us are left looking for someone or something to blame. Some have focused on disgraced former CEO Markus Jooste, casting him as the villainous mastermind behind the disaster. But we may need to look further. While Jooste is certainly culpable, there is plenty of blame to go around. Audit firms, the board, asset managers, analysts, and regulators must surely all come in for their share of the blame. In this interview, former PPS Group CEO Mike Jackson talks about the web of conflicts of interest that help drive failures like the Steinhoff collapse.

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The land reform process in South Africa has always been contentious. But according to University of the Western Cape professor Ben Cousins, it has failed to achieve its goals of reducing poverty and creating jobs because the process has been captured by elites. He believes that land reform that thinks small would be better able to help poor South Africans. In this interview, he explains why land reform should focus on small farmers and modest farms.

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