Reminds me of the old joke – and that's how the fight started. To say I was not livid when I heard this news would be an understatement the size of the Christmas myth. I was absolutely pissed off, more than pissed off, I was completely fucked off. We will speculate forever as to the […]
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This blog was started in August 2006. I started writing it as a guide to people who wanted to know more about the vagaries of black economic empowerment. Perhaps the liberating experience of having a platform to pretty much say what you want went to my head because the blog soon evolved into a political
In his 2015 state of the nation giggle session our very competent, intelligent and decisive president made the following announcement. Government will set-aside 30% of appropriate categories of State procurement for purchasing from SMMEs, co-operatives as well as township and rural enterprises. We are quite used to this esteemed personage's platitudes and incredible decisiveness so it
Draft PPPFA regulation disgust (discussed and cussed) Read More »
Has the Treasury been captured by the black business lobby? Has it bowed before the powerful wind of racial nationalism sweeping through the ruling party and its communist and trade union allies? If so, will the Reserve Bank be the next domino to fall? Until now, the Treasury, like the Reserve Bank, has been a
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The (Tourism) draft codes of good practice were published in the government gazette for public comment over the next two months. "These codes are even more stringent than the already burdensome generic B-BBEE codes, creating additional hurdles which will negatively affect the tourism industry’s ability to create jobs," Mr Hill-Lewis said. The industry is facing
Tourism BEE plan will kill jobs, critics say – why Tourism first? Read More »
October is adamant that no mischief was intended — "it was put into the notice but the effect of it was not understood". Innocent intervention or not, it is one for which his boss, Mr Davies, has had to grovel. via www.bdlive.co.za We all know what happened here. A certain lobbyist or lobby group might
Rob grovels and takes the fall for his lackeys Read More »
