They pretty much published it verbatim - Ray Mahlaka edited it down to something a lot easier to read, you know what I'm like when I get started on bolshie bob.
South Africa was a battered and bruised country when President Cyril Ramaphosa took over the reins.
There was an air of immediate optimism after his state of the nation address. It seemed as though his Thuma Mina proposal was going to get the country to work and everyone was going to roll up their sleeves and get involved. Ramaphosa started out by cleaning up aspects of his cabinet and the entities immediately under his control.
Many commentators lamented about the continued employment of dubious cabinet ministers such as Bathabile Dlamini and Malusi Gigaba. Those two ministers have been put in their place, with their ability to destroy society and the economy.Ramaphosa did however retain one minister in his original portfolio, who has caused an immeasurable amount of harm to the economy: Rob Davies, the Minister of Trade and Industry. I’m not in a position to comment on his broader role as minister, but I have watched him destroy whatever good that a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy had the potential to deliver.
Davies appears to work on the principle that if it’s not broken then change it and make it more onerous. The warning signs were there when he amended his BEE codes in 2012, after giving the initial codes a mere five years to succeed. At the time, I thought that this was as a result of certain powerful lobby groups that had the ear of then President Jacob Zuma. It seems as though this was an incorrect sentiment. Davies has continued on this strategy of destruction since the advent of Ramaphosa’s presidency.
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