The 31st of January, 2010 has come..................and gone. And there are now 50 agencies that are going to end up accrediting say 500,000 companies etc. There is no way in hell that they are going to manage the load. Now what is going to happen to business as we know it? I can't see that it is going to be a pretty sight at all. The larger corporates are notoriously unreasonable - with MTN being about the worst. Oh yes, our reliable yellow cellular network operator is going to insist on only accredited verification certificates, just as they have up until now. Only now they have a legitimate reason to do so. And when subscribers like me can't get a signal then we'll know that MTN's network has come crashing to the ground because its procurement process has slowed down to such an extent it can't service its business.
And Nomonde is not even vaguely concerned that her whole BEE system cannot and will not cope. In fact, she praises herself and her department
Mesatywa added that the Department of Trade and Industry has made significant progress in refining, redesigning, and streamlining the accreditation process in order to ensure that measures to adequately capacitate the industry are in place, and these will be announced at regular intervals.
Is that so Nomonde? You might think these measures exist but I haven't seen them and no one I know has seen them either. What is going to happen when small businesses are put out of business because of MTN and Nestlé-like unreasonableness?
Mind you - I can't be sure that there were many alternatives for you. But be that as it may, the consequences are yours to bear.