Why are we criminalising and ill-treating street hawkers, maar?

On 17 November last year I saw the streets of Rustenburg being cleaned out of street hawkers, many of whom are – according to my observation over the years – brothers and sisters from the African continent. This, of course, is not to imply that our streets are only flooded by these business-minded people because even many South Africans are street hawkers.

Roux Shabangu just doing business the 21st century-way?

Over time and even to this very day one is often told, if not advised, to build and have as much network and connection as one possibly can and this could range from social, family to business connection.

Financial Times editor on Why Journalism Matters

These are the best of times of journalism, especially if you are a business journalist because the profession has a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to report, analyse and comment on the most serious financial crisis since the Great Crash of 1929” and it also has the worst of times because the “news business is suffering from the cyclical shock of a deep recession and the structural change driven by the internet revolution”, said Financial Times editor Lionel Barber last year while addressing British Academy on Why Journalism Matters.