There’s no doubt that the black economic empowerment Pandora’s box has been opened. The resistance against the policy is steadily increasing. I have laboured this point ad nauseum on this blog. A question that I cannot adequately answer to myself is “why is Paul Jansich so opposed to a policy that he derives a living […]
In which the potential future of empowerment policies is discussed Read More »
This came as a bit of a surprise. I was told that the big five law firms were going to launch an application to have the Legal Charter cancelled, removed, struck from memory etc. The DTIC, DoJ and LPC got a little surprise for Christmas where Norton Rose submitted an urgent application to i) have
It's a short post. I still haven't written my letter to the dtic about these SANAS notes that I have seen, I am sure there are many others and if a reader has something else I would appreciate you sending them onto me. I have enough information to ask a few questions and I have
SANAS is wrong, where is the dtic. Are they complicit? Read More »
Zuma unveiled the plan to scrap tuition fees for students from poor South African homes and freeze tariffs for those from working-class households on Dec. 16, two days before Cyril Ramaphosa replaced him as leader of the ruling African National Congress and two days after a body representing the 26 state-owned institutions said each would
In 2017 zuma said and the students rejoiced – and there is one person dead Read More »
And not to be outdone it has decided to up the ante on skills development. I still maintain that 2.5% of payroll spent on bursaries is unaffordable for almost every company in this country – specifically ALL OF THE USELESS SOEs. Tourism is unfazed by this. Fuck it – we'll just make the total spend
Now tourism enters the fray. Comment if you will, probably a waste of time Read More »
The Daily Maverick is becoming the most valuable source of fine journalism in this country. There is nothing that comes close to it. By the way they are looking for financial support, if you are so inclined you can read more about this here. Back to the Maverick. Dirk de Vos wrote a fantastic article
There are a number of black commentators who are not in favour of bolshie bob's new amendments. I spoke about Andile Khumalo's article in the Sunday Times a few months ago. We now have an opinion in one of oddball's publications written by Karabo Mashugane. I don't read surve's newspapers or online publication at all. However
Black opinions matter, especially when it comes to BEE Read More »
Whilst the play is in play the ushers hand out these two documents which will have to substitute for a programme. The ushers inform the audience that they have 60 days to comment on the two documents. hlaudi looks at the documents and sees there is writing on them, being neither literate nor compus he
Rob Davies – making amends, coda to the play in one act Read More »
As I've said before, the dti will push through anything it wants because it knows that no one will ever raise a stink about their legislating by decree. If they ignored 550 comments when pushing through their last attempt at transformation then they will ignore comments again. But if there are enough comments then we
Two weeks to go to submit comments about the BEE amendments – 28 May deadline Read More »
Here are my comments. It took about a day to draft them. The word document is here – please download these comments and make all the changes you want, but most importantly send the comments to Jacques Manus. The dti claims that they received 550 comments on the the revised codes and they probably ignored
