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2 Photos: Soddies: When Whites were pioneers in America: Nebraska: Building a Sod House
This is when Whites got to Nebraska and they found it was a nasty place to try and farm. The soil was hideous. They referred to The sods prairie ground and they would even cut strips of turf to create houses they called soddies.
Trade expert Donald MacKay joins BizNews to unpack what really happened at the old Nissan plant in Rosslyn. On the surface, Chery's arrival looks like a foreign investment win. Underneath it is a subsidy programme costing South African taxpayers over R40 billion a year — spread across just seven companies — and a double dip: Beijing subsidises its manufacturers, and so does Pretoria. MacKay's warning is that anyone who knows how to work the system can now walk through that same door. His benchmark says it all: a South African-made Mercedes costs 30% more here than in Manhattan. Also today: new data shows black South Africans hold two thirds of JSE-listed shares in a finding that cuts straight through the nothing-has-changed narrative — and one year on from the balaclava press conference, the Mkhwanazi story keeps unravelling.
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