Paul Janisch

New codes on the cheap – not likely. Want more of this then vote ANC

Not that I have ever voted for the DA.  It doesn't matter who I vote for, what does matter is why.  I vote because I want to reduce the ANC's power.  I once heard the Helen Zille would love to vote for the ANC, she feels that the ANC should have been a good home for her.  But alas the crony incompetence of the ANC forced her into the opposition.  I can relate.

I always post an anti-ANC post before an election.  The news is full of how Zuma uses feudal methods to retain loyalty, part of this is to hire grossly incompetent people in positions (Hlaudi, Dudu, Muthambi and many others) of power.  Most of his cabinet are suurstofdiewe, hopelessly out of their league and blissfully unaware of this fact.  Alas Rob Davies, aka Rob the Red or Bolshie Bob is not one of those.  He's not stupid he's just a rotten commie who has been given a free reign on the economy and is wantonly destroying it.  He is obviously very inspired by Zuma's policy of hiring incompetents because his department is fraught with such people.

You imagine Bolshie taking on the job as a national coach of football.  He hires people like me as assistant coaches, knowing that we know nothing about football (and I know NOTHING),  the only guidance he provides is a game plan that the Uruguayans used in 1930 which no longer works. He then buggers off to the sidelines and waits for the impending disaster whilst spewing 1930s football rhetoric and statistics. "If it works then, then it will work now."

What brought this vitriol on was the exercise I undertook yesterday (a large part of yesterday I stress) in creating an assessment of a client's performance of the revised codes. The calculations are ridiculously complicated for me – someone who is rather well versed in these codes. Complexity aside – the sheer lunacy of these codes come to the fore. The table below shows the same client's skills development costs

Race Group	Modified EAP	Target spend per race group	Target spend per person
AM	45.89%	1,452,367.80	44,011.15
CM	6.54%	206,971.33	20,697.13
IM	2.14%	67,800.95	16,950.24
WM	0.00%
AF	38.56%	1,220,417.17	203,402.86
CF	5.64%	178,423.56	178,423.56
IF	1.24%	39,253.18	9,813.30
WF	0.00%

I've harped on about this a lot in the past. But I still cannot understand why the 6% of payroll is justifiable. How on earth is this company going to spend 203k on the training of African women? You could go to sesame bun and ask him what to do and he'll tell you to sponsor black women at university. This is not feasible. It's never going to be feasible. The sad thing about going to sesame bun and the DTI is that he doesn't know what he's doing either, and neither do his minions.

This is Bolshie social engineering at the stroke of a pen and then leaving the implementation of this to those companies that have to figure out what to do. He's enlisted his equally incompetent state-owned entities to blam this message home, they are equally clueless and just as protected as Bob is.

This is the product of the ANC, if you wish to perpetuate the status quo then be sure to vote Zuma. But the Zimbabwean example has shown that regimes like this will come undone. And when that happens…………… IT'S TOO FUCKING LATE!!!!

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Bloody Sparrow. She should have just kept her mouth shut, they can't prosecute you for thoughts (well not yet, although I did hear of a certain Cape judge who claimed that his tea was served to him in a racist way). All that's happened is that the ANC is now going to use racism as their electioneering differentiator. Poor ANC, Khumalo really fucked that up for them as well because he (and a proud ANC supporter too) wants to gas all the white people. I wonder if he asked Eskom whether they have enough power to do this. Here you have a black person who is also racist. But there is no ways that any political party other than the Freedom Y Front plus will campaign on this basis. The ANC, following or followed by the EFF are going to level harsh criticism at corporate South Africa for being fundamentally racist and not transforming. This in a year where business is going to batten down the hatches and prepare for more idioticisms coming from Zoomer's mouth. Every time our unrepentant moron of a president (what he presides over is still a mystery) opens his mouth the economy takes a bigger tumble, you need to build that into your business plan as well.

This will be the tone of political conversation for the next six months. Add in the fact that Rob's revised codes are going to raise their ugly head at some stage this year and you have a recipe for racist behaviour. Corporates will argue, well after the horse has bolted, that these codes are impossible to implement and that they are undoing the progress made thus far. This will play into the EFF and ANC's hands. The evil capitalists will be blamed for the ANC's woes and their insistence on pursuing this anti-transformational agenda requires radical economic transformation. Pravin will keep quiet even though he knows that this constituency provides him with the dwindling tax revenue that is needed to keep Zoomer's buddies in employment.

We're over a barrel here. Our best intentions just won't be good enough, it will be a bloodbath. But we will survive it, what we don't want is for Zoomer to survive it. That he is ignorant is a moot point, what we are now discovering is that he a belligerent ignorant. Our economy will struggle to work its way around this belligerence.

Pravin is not going to wake up and repeal Rob's codes. I would be surprised if Treasury hasn't informed him that they are a problem. Treasury hasn't amended their PPPFA regulations either, section 10 (1) of the regulations still refers to EMEs as turning over less than R5m. If we want to effect transformation then we need to do it in an equitable manner. Exempting not insignificant-sized companies from BEE because they are black owned and then lumbering the balance of the companies with the onerous requirements that cannot be complied with is not the solution. Corporate South Africa needs to grow fuck you balls and stand up to the ANC with proper solutions, not acquiescing to delusions delivered by some Zoomer patsy who is not paid for his or her capabilities but for their loyalty.

We wait and see.