There's another thing I need to say about this. From a personal perspective I'm not sure that rioting students are going to endear themselves to any potential bursary provider, specifically those with an R4-like weapon. It could be that I am a little older than I once was when the cops used to come onto the Wits Campus with sjamboks and teargas. It was insane – we thought it was a joke. It was a joke until my friend Colleen got a truncheon across her back. We were all on the steps of the Great Hall. The piggies were down on the library lawns, crouched and poised with a mortar launcher that sent the teargas into our midst. All I heard was (in decidedly broken English) "Attention, attention. In terms of the Internal Secur…………………………". Before he could finish his sentence the first teargas bomb dropped on the steps. We all ran in numerous directions – some through the doors to the Great Hall and others around the sides. The cops arrived and starting beating whoever they could get their hands on, Colleen happened to be in the way of a sjambok's wild swing was heading.
Unlike the protesters of this day and age, we did not break the glass and doors of the Great Hall. I don't recall that we went around and destroyed Braamfontein. But these were different times. They were better because we didn't have zuma and bolshie bob. Worse because it was the tail end of apartheid and the nationalist government was having it's last real go at asserting itself. Once Mandela was released the violent protests stopped.
I was thinking about bob's lunacy which didn't extend to just a scorecard. A friend of mine was trying to get an equity equivalent project through and had done all he needed to do to get it through as per that (equally deluded) code. He came up against a different person at the DTI every time. Once he was told to go away because the DTI would only consider programmes that address the fees must fall cause.
It comes back to the reward vs the cost. In the case of the two examples in my last post the cost per point for each of these companies is astronomical
|
Target |
Cost per point |
|
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Dischem |
167 725 000 |
41 931 250.00 |
|
Pick 'n Pay |
70 820 925 |
17 705 231.25 |
When you break it down like this, it's fucking nuts. What bolshie should have done is added in another element. He could have dropped the skills development target from 6% of payroll to 5% and then provided an additional 15 points for bursaries that cost the same as the SDL amount. I don't who advised him on this. How do you sell this to an economy that doesn't trust you anyway and think they'll go for it. Surely these idiots learned from the nationalists. You can't sell something to someone if they don't want to buy. How much did the homeland system cost from an emotional, financial and law and order perspective. It cost many billions and never worked because the people weren't interested. And yet the proteges of bad apartheid governance continue on their destructive journey.
It's more than lunacy.
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