In his weekly newsletter, the president warned that economic growth without transformation would entrench exclusion, while acknowledging that transformation without growth was unsustainable

The ministry sought to counter the DA’s argument that the targets amount to unfair discrimination

The final quotas make it virtually impossible for coloured and Indian workers to find or keep a job, argues the party

The Democratic Alliance has claimed credit for the about-turn by the treasury on the tax, saying its legal team had presented a strong case against the flawed parliamentary process used to adopt the fiscal framework

In response, the presidency said the Constitution ‘provided for such matters to be decided by the courts in the event of a dispute’

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