Knowing that the Employment Equality Act (EEA) has as one of its main objectives the equality of outcomes the following two articles by Steven Horwitz should be of considerable interest to those concerned about inequality and...
Read More‘Why are such vacuous slogans as ‘white monopoly capital’ and ‘radical economic transformation’ taken seriously?’ “Inequality” implies a socioeconomic definition of equality, but...
Read More. . . . [B]y every objectively indexed criterion of wealth, living standards and real world equality, things have never been better. Instead of restating facts, we ask why wealth is diverted to generating disinformation...
Read MoreRadicals in the ANC and the tripartite alliance accused it of “betraying the revolution”. Their strategy is subversion from within and activism alongside radical elements and break-away factions. The ANC tolerated,...
Read MoreOver the weekend an article appeared in the FT Weekend where the question was asked: “But might the pursuit of equality be philosophically indefensible – a distraction from more important goals?” Julian Baggini reviews...
Read More“Mr Piketty’s crypto-Marxism, moribund ideology and muddled thinking are concealed by an intellectual sleight of hand. His book has been criticised by eminent economists and analysts, including Nobel laureates. He boasts about...
Read More“Some inequality matters; some doesn’t matter, except to the envious. Income inequality doesn’t matter. The most important inequality is between people, like me, who have enough for a happy life, and those who haven’t. ...
Read More“Due to the huge inequalities and historical discrepancies in the mining industry, it is Uasa’s contention that it will be a mistake to follow the traditional CPI-based (consumer price index) approach when formulating wage...
Read MoreIn the opinion of Professor Jeremy Seekings, the Director of the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, ‘every study in South Africa finds that real wage increases reduce the demand for labour’ and...
Read MoreDoes inequality between rich and poor really matter? Yes, if barriers exist due to lack of equal opportunity and prevent the poor from developing the capability to maximise their potential. No, if people are free and able to...
Read MoreInequality in the workplace is targeted in the Employment Equity Act 1998 by requiring the elimination of ‘disproportionate income differentials’. Schedule EEA 9 mentions six equivalent occupational levels and refers to a...
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