The BIG question as asked by Leader SA
“South Africa has everything required to be the wealthiest nation in the world – we have gold, platinum, natural minerals; we have Nobel Peace Prize winners and gravitas when it comes to leadership (excluding some examples of the last few years, of course); we have the most progressive constitution in the world; we have brilliant policies; we celebrate enormous cultural diversity and are essentially at cultural peace with each other.
"So what’s the problem?"
Here is my longer version :
South Africa is the only country in the world where 90% of the population have to introduce LAWS that govern the economic actions of the other 10%. I am not going to try to be politically correct. Without knocking anyone these are major obstacles holding us back: BEE, Affirmative action, Laws like the newly proposed "gag" Law, "Traditional leaders law" . Having the most progressive Constitution in the world can be scratched with one stroke of the pen by introducing these types of laws.
The Gag law will hide corruption. The Tradition leaders law will take away the power of black women -and men that won't stand up against it.
The country should not be led by Political leaders - It should be led by Economic leaders. We have none of either of the two.
The Entrepreneurial spirit should be kindled and expanded. We talk too much and do too little about this. Instead of banks revising their lending criteria to help entrepreneurs they prefer to go to court to cover up their dismissals.
We allow foreigners to take the bread out of our people's mouths - The contract with Sanral, Barclay's shareholding in Absa (55% - what they say goes and jobs are lost)
In an effort to protect the workers we introduce silly labour laws that cost jobs.
No coherent job creation project exist. Again we talk about it and it does not come off the ground.
Now these are only some of the problems - Leader SA you asked for the problems , Now why don't you ask for solutions ?
Start a discussion on each and every one of the problems identified - I can go on for quite a while longer but I think we need to turn this discussion around into something positive !
We should take note of the comments BUT I think it is time that we DO something about the problems - There is a saying that one person cannot change the world - In fact it always starts with one person. Nelson Mandela is living proof of that !
“South Africa has everything required to be the wealthiest nation in the world – we have gold, platinum, natural minerals; we have Nobel Peace Prize winners and gravitas when it comes to leadership (excluding some examples of the last few years, of course); we have the most progressive constitution in the world; we have brilliant policies; we celebrate enormous cultural diversity and are essentially at cultural peace with each other.
"So what’s the problem?"
Here is my longer version :
South Africa is the only country in the world where 90% of the population have to introduce LAWS that govern the economic actions of the other 10%. I am not going to try to be politically correct. Without knocking anyone these are major obstacles holding us back: BEE, Affirmative action, Laws like the newly proposed "gag" Law, "Traditional leaders law" . Having the most progressive Constitution in the world can be scratched with one stroke of the pen by introducing these types of laws.
The Gag law will hide corruption. The Tradition leaders law will take away the power of black women -and men that won't stand up against it.
The country should not be led by Political leaders - It should be led by Economic leaders. We have none of either of the two.
The Entrepreneurial spirit should be kindled and expanded. We talk too much and do too little about this. Instead of banks revising their lending criteria to help entrepreneurs they prefer to go to court to cover up their dismissals.
We allow foreigners to take the bread out of our people's mouths - The contract with Sanral, Barclay's shareholding in Absa (55% - what they say goes and jobs are lost)
In an effort to protect the workers we introduce silly labour laws that cost jobs.
No coherent job creation project exist. Again we talk about it and it does not come off the ground.
Now these are only some of the problems - Leader SA you asked for the problems , Now why don't you ask for solutions ?
Start a discussion on each and every one of the problems identified - I can go on for quite a while longer but I think we need to turn this discussion around into something positive !
We should take note of the comments BUT I think it is time that we DO something about the problems - There is a saying that one person cannot change the world - In fact it always starts with one person. Nelson Mandela is living proof of that !
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