2012 COGP

Pierre de Vos ran a commentary on the Solidarity WCape case. I think it's a landmark case and is very welcomed – de Vos' conclusion at the end of the post highlights the issues we face with legislation that is intended to redress the injustices of the past The judgment ….. affirmed the importance and […]

This refers to my blog post over the weekend.  To summarise,  I am looking to inundate the DTI with legitimate requests for an explanation of why they went ahead with these codes when many people didn't agree with them.  For those companies/people who didn't send in comments there are a variety of reasons to submit a PAJA

Well not exactly, but he's not known to mince his words.  Mr Gleason and I had a few chats over the last couple of days about these BEE codes and he published a lovely article in his Torque column in Business Day today.  I love what he writes especially when he deals with Rob Whatever

Advocate Paul Hoffman wrote an article for BDLive in July where he correctly stated that "there should be certainty about what the law is and what it requires, both procedurally and substantively." This is not an unreasonable request to be made on legislators. The question is why have we tolerated substandard codes of good practice

Become an empowering supplier, get a scorecard, get some ownership (preferably 100%) and get the tender. What a lovely idea, but can you issue certificates under gazette number 36928? I'm actually surprised that we haven't seen BEE certificates issued under the new codes already, afterall paragraph 10 of statement 000 says you can. Paragraph 10

Governments have a right to pass unpopular laws, as long as they follow due process, are rational and comply with the constitution. The factor that has been missing in South Africa for the past 20 years is political consequences — there have been few or none as far as the ANC is concerned. But that

Udge's greatest contribution to matters BEE has got to be that moustache. Best moustache in BEE, it must make most cabinet ministers turn green with envy. Like all BEE consultants Mr Lalu has sent out an email to his clients which was forwarded to me from two different sources. It's full of the usual yada

Speaking of the devil.  My post over the weekend asked whether the DA would tolerate these codes.  Apparently they won't.  Wilmot James published a release on Politicsweb yesterday.  In the release he pretty much echoes what most businesses are asking. DTI clearly has not applied its minds to comments received on the draft Codes published

Is it strange that these codes come out six months before a rather critical election? An election that could show the ANC up for the bungling party that it is. It's common cause that the black middle class is wavering when it comes to casting their vote in favour of the ANC. These BEE codes

As can be expected there are now a plethora of experts offering conferences and seminars and, and, and.  I've decided I'll do that too.  There is enough evidence on this blog to demonstrate that I know what I'm talking about, something that the DTI will definitely differ on.  I suspect that I know more about