Codes of Good Practice

Rob Davies – making amends, coda to the play in one act

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

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Comments submitted to the DTI on the BEE Amendments (2 May 2018). Please send these to the dti

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

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They call them QSFIs in FSC speak and use the old codes, awdozn’t that sound nice

It's a strange business this BEE business, we all keep our little schlenters to ourselves and leave the rest of the world in the dark.  I can assure you dear reader that there are a number of schlenters that I have devised and still use – in spite of SANAS' best intentions to close them

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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

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The horse’s mouth – rumours about new codes continue.

Minister Rob Davies tells Engineering News that the DTI is elevating the concept of a balanced scorecard from the Codes of Good Conduct to the current Act.  The DTI states that enterprise development (ED) is one of the significant elements that can contribute towards the broader aims of government to support the growth of small

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White women lose out and why Andile should not advise a parking guard on where to park cars (let alone anyone on BEE matters)

Andile Tlhoaele had better hope that he is quoted inaccurately in this New Age report.  White women would be the biggest losers once the broad-based black economic empowerment amendment bill was enacted as expected early next year, BEE specialist Andile Tlhoaele said on Monday. The proposed changes meant they would no longer be entitled to

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Confirming the PPPFA’s applicability and the DTI workshop

This notice was issued by Treasury this afternoon regarding the applicability of the PPPFA – it was issued in June but made the front page of www.gov.za today.  Reinforces my earlier post about Eskom and PPPFA. NOTICE IN TERMS OF SECTION 1 (iii)(f) OF THE PREFERENTIAL PROCUMENT POLICY FRAMEWORK ACT, 2000 (ACT NO. 5 OF 2000) 

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An invitation to the new codes and act amendment workshop (except I wasn’t invited)

The attached document is a CLOSED invitation that a reader has been invited to on the 7th of December (same day the PPPFA goes live).  I'd love to attend but alas I am busy (although this is irrelevant as I wasn't invited).  Why not try your luck and see if you can blag your way

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