The Big Issue #315
February – March 2023
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There’s little doubt – BEE needs a rethink
Chris Bishop is a veteran journalist and the founding editor of Forbes Africa and Billionaire Tomorrow. He describes the process he went through writing his book, The BEE Billionaires, which questions the impact of one of the biggest economic experiments in Africa that began a quarter of a century ago: black economic empowerment.
Seers and Visionaries
What do you make of oracles and their future prophecies?
Tightening the noose on corrupters
Raymond Joseph investigates the crime of how Lottery money was used to fund mansions
for highflyers. Success stories from South Africa’s Prevention of Organised Crime Act do exist. Here, five luxury properties connected to misappropriated Lottery grants have been frozen by the Asset Forfeiture Unit.
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Eminent South African photographer Obie Oberholzer, former professor of photography at Rhodes University’s Department of Fine Art, now travels extensively and produces quirky pictorial travel books; no mean feat in a country ravaged by many wrongdoings.
March 9, 2023
Chris Bishop is a veteran journalist and the founding editor of Forbes Africa and Billionaire Tomorrow. He describes the process he went through writing his book, The BEE Billionaires, which questions the impact of one of the biggest economic experiments in Africa that began a quarter of a century ago: black economic empowerment.
March 2, 2023
Raymond Joseph investigates the crime of how Lottery money was used to fund mansions for highflyers. Success stories from South Africa’s Prevention of Organised Crime Act do exist. Here, five luxury properties connected to misappropriated Lottery grants have been frozen by the Asset Forfeiture Unit.
March 2, 2023
Legalese has historically weaponised itself with ambiguous wording and vague language – a tradition that has left ordinary people ignorant. But did you know? Our Consumer Protection Act (68 of 2008) offers you protection against this.
March 2, 2023
