When the Jobs Summit was announced, I knew, like I'm sure others did, it was going to be a talk fest. And it has been that – an orgiastic spewing of verbiage, with everyone including me, giving his or her opinion after the fact.
There's the liberal-left like Business Day's resident Ramaphoria boot-licker Ray Hartley who think it as "masterstroke", and others like academic Alan Hirsch who wrote "undoubtedly the outcome of the recent summit is positive".
There's the liberal-left like Business Day's resident Ramaphoria boot-licker Ray Hartley who think it as "masterstroke", and others like academic Alan Hirsch who wrote "undoubtedly the outcome of the recent summit is positive".
They and others including (white) BDay/Tiso Group readers forget the ANC's one (only one) speciality of churning out economic strategies that immediately are consigned to File 13, mouldy and unread. So it is with this summit, the nth iteration of one or other development strategy since 1994.
These ramaphorias, including the ground zero of the outbreak, the entire ANC, past and active members, might suffer from a contagion like porphyria – a nervous system disorder – and insanity, which the 20th century genius Albert Einstein defined as doing something over and over again expecting a different result.
Almost everyone of the planet's 7 billion people, except the ANC and the Mbeki, Zuma and Ramaphoria cult followers, know and have known for years what must be done to create the conditions for economic growth and development. But they didn't get the memo, or in the age of the internet and fourth industrial revolution, email and Google.
The Institute of Race Relations' (IRR) Sara Gon is the latest to offer an opinion. She's largely correct in her assessment, except in her IRR free market/pure capitalism outlook she deliberately (unless she too didn't get the memo/email/Google), omits businesses' and especially big businesses' role, or deliberate and neglectful lack, creating entrepreneurship, business and economic growth and development.
Come on Sara, surely you know the South Africa's economic structure is inimical to those things – read the IMF's David Lipton 2016 speech "Bridging the Economic Divide" at Wits which I often cite, and others. Big business, which earns up to 50% more profit than anywhere else in the world, benefits from the cosy, incestuous industrial relations and economic model to the exclusion of small entrepreneurs, start-ups and SA consumers.
She mention government and unions, and specifically the latter being a member of Nedlac, but big business is too and are part of the Jobs Summit. Who represents SMMEs and unemployed? Not them, and not IRR and Free Market Foundation.
These ramaphorias, including the ground zero of the outbreak, the entire ANC, past and active members, might suffer from a contagion like porphyria – a nervous system disorder – and insanity, which the 20th century genius Albert Einstein defined as doing something over and over again expecting a different result.
Almost everyone of the planet's 7 billion people, except the ANC and the Mbeki, Zuma and Ramaphoria cult followers, know and have known for years what must be done to create the conditions for economic growth and development. But they didn't get the memo, or in the age of the internet and fourth industrial revolution, email and Google.
The Institute of Race Relations' (IRR) Sara Gon is the latest to offer an opinion. She's largely correct in her assessment, except in her IRR free market/pure capitalism outlook she deliberately (unless she too didn't get the memo/email/Google), omits businesses' and especially big businesses' role, or deliberate and neglectful lack, creating entrepreneurship, business and economic growth and development.
Come on Sara, surely you know the South Africa's economic structure is inimical to those things – read the IMF's David Lipton 2016 speech "Bridging the Economic Divide" at Wits which I often cite, and others. Big business, which earns up to 50% more profit than anywhere else in the world, benefits from the cosy, incestuous industrial relations and economic model to the exclusion of small entrepreneurs, start-ups and SA consumers.
She mention government and unions, and specifically the latter being a member of Nedlac, but big business is too and are part of the Jobs Summit. Who represents SMMEs and unemployed? Not them, and not IRR and Free Market Foundation.
Gon/IRR are doing what they do, lobby for their own interests groups – business – so she mustn't claim to represent all South Africans. They have a credibility gap here, and IRR's blatant lobbying is irritating and disingenuous.
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