Ain't that the truth. The more I think about our esteemed minister of trade and industry the more I realise that he is worse than zuma when it comes to destroying an economy. His first world mind resides in the second world and operates in the third world. It is most happy when he creates rules and red tape. That's his thing. And now it is our thing. Last weekend I spent an afternoon calculating the skills score under the construction code. It took a whole afternoon. Why ?I asked myself. Is transformation going to happen because there is one idiot in Pretoria who thinks that the harder we make it the more transformed we will become as a country? It must be because bolshie bob has a phd in something.
I come back to my play in one act in which I spoofed a series of phonecalls that davies receives from a variety of black businesses complaining about the complexity of compliance and why they should have to implement and measure those programmes. A recent article by Deon Oberholzer adds more clarity.
The dti proposes a number of clarifying restrictions that seek to ensure that “real black-owned business” would be exempt... It’s not rocket science to understand why this happened. The voice of black business is getting stronger and the argument is that they are supposed to be the beneficiaries of BEE, even if they are successful and large. It is common cause that the cost of BEE is high and often a serious financial burden on business. If it wasn’t, black business would not have bothered to lobby government for exemption.
Oberholzer postulates that this ultimate exemption will allow large black businesses to conduct their business with SOEs and government and those corporates that insist on high levels of black ownership and that white businesses will just supply to them. Ultimately the means of production remain in the current hands and black business is only known for its ability to act as an agent.
Very special is our bolshie bob. Cyril remove this moron before he destroys the country completely. He is the one standing in your way, forget the eff. It's this man who is killing the Youth Employment Service, making a mockery of thuma mina and forever pigeonholing black businesses into part time players.
We now wait to see how long it takes bolshie to publish the final amendment where he places scant regard for those who politely tell him how wrong he is.
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