Zuma has appointed new members for the presidential black economic empowerment council, his office said on Thursday.
They are:
- Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies; (communist - liabilitiy)
- Susan Shabangu, Minister of Women in the presidency; (useless mining minister - liability)
- Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant; (look at the state of employee legislation - draconian. All under her watch. Liability)
- Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi; (Zuma man - liability)
- Zingiswa Losi, the second deputy president of the Congress of SA Trade Unions; (trade unionist - massive liability)
- Tantaswa Fubu, president of the Association for the Advancement of Black Accountants of SA; (less of a liability)
- Puleng Tsebe, deputy chairman of Disabled People SA; (don't know this person, my guess is liability)
- Sandile Zungu, vice-president of the Black Business Council; (professional black, has run a business, but exists because of Zuma and it does not appear that business respects him - massive liability)
- Clive Manci, member of the Board of Business Unity SA; (seems to be a bona fide businessman - I approve)
- Eltie Links, chairman of Doing Business in Africa at the Stellenbosch Graduate School of Business; (president of the AHI, OK)
- Chantyl Mulder, senior executive for professional development and transformation at the SA Institute of Chartered Accountants; (Very nice person, but knows as much about running a business as Rob Davies. Liability)
- Lefadi Makibinyane, chief executive of the Council for Consulting Engineers SA; (OK - not bad)
- Thami Mazwai, executive chairman of Mtiya Dynamics; (Bitter man - chip exists, ANC patsy, MASSIVE LIABILITY)
- Yershen Pillay, chairman of the National Youth Development Agency; (probably a liability)
- Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele, former housing minister and Central Energy Fund chairwoman; (Zuma person - liability)
- Mike Mlengana, president of the African Farmers Association of SA; (why him, why? Liability)
- Zinhle Cele, deputy secretary general of the Progressive Professionals Forum; (Let's be clear about this. This is jungle jim's baby. It's an ANC organ and a liability)
- Koko Khumalo, deputy president of the Black Management Forum and; (The BMF is getting its act together. I don't expect this person to be the voice of reason amongst this crowd of Zuma cronies. Will ultimately amount to nothing)
- Caroline Magadla, treasurer general of the SA National Apex Cooperative. (Can't find anything on her. She's spared my analysis)
via www.iol.co.za
We need to see this in context. The Amended BEE Act (which apprently will come into effect this month) states that these people will be PAID for doing this - so much for Nene reducing government expenditure. Zuma has filled it with mostly black people (other than Chantyl), many of whom are his cronies, buddies, mates, backers etc. The timing is almost perfect. How are we ever going to take them seriously. Thank god Ellen has her hands full with the Zuma-approved tactic of delaying the inevitable, and is no longer on the council (although she might need the money).
But my question is very simply, if BEE is now a white problem, which the new codes go to great lengths to stress, then why do we not have white business people sitting on this council. You've got a bunch of people pronouncing on BEE and its implementation and they are exempted from dealing with the challenges in getting Rob's codes off the ground.
This is like having a bunch of plumbers deciding how dentists should behave.
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