Paul Janisch

White monopoly capital, zumatrump, entitlement, sulking and crystal bollocks

It seems as though it'll be more of the same as last year, only worse when you throw trump into the equation.  What a perfect pair zuma and trump (henceforth lower case- altwee) are, if you combine them you have a perfect despot.  zuma's agenda for this year is divert the public's attention away from the complete idiot he is (I really wanted to write fuckhead - but that's a bit too real)  to the new White Monopoly Capital moniker.  A very predictable move from a man who, like mugabe back in the day finds himself in the far corner of the Saxonwold shebeen holding up the walls.  

There are threats that zoomer is going to re-shuffle his cabinet and get rid of Pravin.  I can't see this happening for a variety of reasons.

 Firstly, when zoomer fired Nene a delegation of very powerful people arrived at his kaya and told him to remove des (all three foot of him, by all accounts a few inches taller than hlaudi) and restore Pravin to the job.  A move that put zuma firmly on the backfoot.  It strengthened civil society's resolve to protest against the doos.  The result was brave people like Sipho Pityana starting the Save SA movement.  zuma's buffoonery and the ANC's blind loyalty to him resulted in the very poor ANC performance in the August 2016 elections.  Since then the voices calling for his removal are louder than ever.  We have seen members of his cabinet call for his removal (they call it stepping down which is what honourable people would do - zoomer is a doos with a standard three, he is not honourable).  100 CEO's have recently pledged support for Pravin, a distinctly anti-zoomer move.  If zuma fires Pravin, the delegation that marches to his kaya door will be much more powerful - they will force him to retract the dismissal and make him even weaker.  It would also split the ANC into a number of pieces.  Right now the ANC needs to keep its shit together, a split ANC could result in the 52% splitting up and the DA becoming the dominant party.

Secondly, Brian Moleefy-suburb-of-Saxonwold-shebeen-frequenter has no credibility in the eyes of business and the world.  He is not a viable option for finance minister.  His love of the guptas and the stories now coming out about his questionable procurement practices in a variety of state entities have destroyed his reputation.  A Pravin master stroke.

Thirdly.  It's only the zoomer faithful who believe him now.  He has no credibility anywhere - hell he couldn't risk being sent to Davos.  He will manipulate underneath - videre (I should) Koko's love of nuclear.  Not forgetting the yooofleeg and the wimminsleeg.

I ambitiously hope that zuma will be removed by the end of the year.  With people like Pityana leading the charge the possibility remains, but with short fingered morons like trump in the US I can't be sure.

And this year

• The revised codes will start infiltrating the economy. I was right all along, they are shocking, unrealistic and unviable.  But we South Africans are a resilient bunch.  I'll figure them out.  I've already got the measure of skills development, procurement is next on my list.  What I do hope to see is that corporate South Africa comes to realise that the ridiculous pressure they are putting on smaller businesses to retain levels is unreasonable.  Here's an analogy.  

We accept that Wade van Niekerk's world record for the 400m is 43.03.  SASOL, amongst many others, is insisting that all their suppliers (athletes in this context) run below 50 seconds.  The only problem is that the distance is now 500m.  

• Scores have to be allowed to settle.  I am unrealistically hoping that Rob drops his priority element ballsup because it works so negatively against those trying to make an effort.  
• Expect much fear and many courses.  Everyone will tell you how you have to spend muchos cashos to get the points.  Wait for my course - you'll find the points within your company and still transform it.  
• The time for companies doing all the ED/SD work for their beneficiaries has to come to an end.  Successful black speaking companies will target their benefactors and will add proper value to their benefactors.  They will succeed in the long term.  Part of of their programme will be to provide those companies with the necessary documentation that is required by the overzealous SANAS verification agencies.
• On the subject of verification.  The shit has hit the fan.  Not that we've felt it yet.  IRBA certificates can no longer be issued.  The number of SANAS agencies is not growing fast enough.  Bottlenecks are imminent.  And the dti, hands numb under the bum
• Expect more and more arbitrariness from the parastatals.  I don't know if there is a single one with competent management.  We know that Eskom and SAA are scraping the barrel. In the latter's case, the barrel was stolen years ago. Anticipate that your carefully constructed 51% black owned company will be rejected because they now only want 56.34590125% black owned businesses.  It's coming I tell you

The future of empowerment legislation is..............?

Secure.  The ANC needs BEE and it must fail.  It cannot succeed under an ANC government because then they would have no one to blame for their ineptitude. Why do we have revised codes, simple, companies were making great headway.  Oh no, they were successful at this transformation lark, we must now show that they are racist by making compliance harder.  How can you blame white monopoly capital for your failures when it's actually transforming.  Here we have a government that loves your tax money but feels the need to remind you how racist you are whilst they plunder the coffers that you filled.

And if the DA takes over.  They cannot allow this policy to lapse.  If they do they will lose the black middle class.  It will continue in some guise but will be designed for success.

And if the EFF takes over.  We're all EFF-ed.  

Happy new year. Good luck.  Send me mails, hire me to solve your problems, book me for talks, just don't invite me to your Christmas parties.

And I leave you with a delightful song about the summer to keep your spirits up

14 - Die Radiators - Somerlied

 

 

 

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Zuma promises more changes to boost BEE - now it's changing the PPPFA

Speaking to the Black Business Council, which has signaled strong support for Zuma, South Africa’s president said that the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act will be changed “to continue the quest for a transformed economy”. More people must be brought into the net to benefit from government contracts, he said.

via www.biznews.com

We've heard this before.  Remember how seriously Dud took the doos's obiter remark about set-asides in his 2015 state of the nation (of no fixed) address?  I think this is another platitude from the mouth of a moron who no-one likes nor respects (other than Hlaudi of course).  As Jackie Cameron wrote

The president’s words will be music to the ears of the tenderpreneur brigade, though not so sweet to the small army of entrepreneurs who aren’t black but play a meaningful role in job creation and economic growth and are already doing their bit for BEE. An amended public procurement bill is set to be released for discussion next month and tabled in Parliament early next year.

I can't see this happening.  Zuma lacks the political clout to do it.  Perhaps he is prodding Treasury to see what their reaction will be.  Perhaps he thinks that the useless and tailcoat-riding BBC will start lobbying to get rid of Pravin because he's not going to agree to this.  Thinking about it, this is probably what Zuma is doing. The strategy now is to create huge dissatisfaction with Pravin, specifically amongst those who are not competent enough to provide services to the private sector and have settled for government work that worries neither about quality nor price.

Now he's attempting to placate the completely irrelevant jungle jim, who is threatening to go to court (yeah right) to get the PPPFA scrapped.  He's saying the regulations that Treasury published earlier this year are going to be promulgated at the end of this year as an interim measure, and then they are going to change the Act (not repeal it jungle).  Here are the words of the thickest human being next to Hlaudi.

In the past five years as part of advancing BBBEE procurement, government amended the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act or the PPPFA Regulations to provide for BEE preference points. We thought this would work and would make an impact. However, you pointed out that it does not work.  We are now aware of the shortcomings. We agree that the preference points system prescribed in the PPPFA is rigid and is not responsive to government objectives.

Due to the shortcomings, the preferential procurement regulations have failed to substantially re-shape the skewed ownership and control of the South African economy. It is the intention of government to ultimately repeal the PPPFA and its associated regulations and introduce a more flexible preferential procurement framework that is responsive to government objectives. 

In this regard, the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act will be repealed by the Public Procurement Act. The Public Procurement Bill is now going through the different government stakeholder engagement processes before it is tabled in Parliament. This is targeted for early 2017. I trust that the BBC has made its inputs to the National Treasury.

In the interim, government is to produce regulations that will improve the PPPFA to make them more responsive to the economic transformation imperatives.

One of the main changes contained in the proposed new Preferential Procurement Regulations is the introduction of a compulsory sub-contracting clause.

It will be compulsory to sub-contract a minimum of 30% of the value of the contract for all contracts above 30 million rand, to small and emerging enterprises owned by the women, youth, black people or persons with disability. The intention is to finalise the Preferential Procurement Regulations for approval during October 2016, and for these to be promulgated by 1 November 2016.

Will this actually materialise? Zuma is a lame duck, it won't happen.  

 

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Journalistic licence – head in the Hlauds

"Dr Joseph Goebbels, minister of public enlightenment and propaganda… was now systematically dismantling what remained of a free press in Germany. (H)e had assembled three hundred Berlin journalists to instruct them on the provision of the Nazis' new National Press Law. First and foremost, he had announced, to practice journalism in Germany one would henceforth have to do so as a licensed member of his press organization, the Reichsverband der Deutschen Presse, and no one would be licensed who had, or was married to someone who had, so much as one Jewish grandparent. As for editorial content, no one was to publish anything that was not consecrated by the party. Specifically, nothing was to be published that was 'calculated to weaken the power of the Reich at home or abroad, the community will of the German people, its military spirit, or its culture and economy.'

'I don't know why this should be a problem,' Goebbels stated, 'it is possible that the Government may sometimes be mistaken as to individual measures, but it is absurd to suggest that anything superior to the Government might take its place. What is the use of editorial scepticism? It can only make people uneasy.' Later that week the Nazis enacted a separate measure imposing the death penalty on those who published 'treasonable articles'."

Taken from Daniel James Brown's "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" page 20

This quote is set in 1933. Now let's come back to the present.

On Thursday, acting SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng proposed that journalists have a licence to practice like those in the medical and law professions. He said journalists who acted unprofessionally should be stripped of their licences. "You know when you are a journalist, you are a professional journalist. If you don't have ethics and principles and you mislead on your reporting, like lawyers... if you commit any mistake they take your licence," he was quoted as saying by the SABC. "We should do the same thing with journalists, that is what we need to do if we want to build South Africa." He was speaking at the annual Joburg Radio Days at Wits University in Johannesburg.

The similarities between Goebbels and Hlaudi are alarming. The Nats weren't that different and the ANC has learned from the Nats. Brown describes Goebbels as "just over five feet tall with a deformed and shortened right leg, a club foot, and an oddly shaped head that seemed too large for his small body". I've not seen Hlaudi in real life so I can't draw any physical comparisons. You could argue that Hlaudi doesn't have a matric and that he doesn't fully understand the implication of his words. But as we've learned with Zoomer who has a lot less than a matric, an ill-educated man is very dangerous indeed.

Now – would I need a licence as a blogger? Probably.

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