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Time for the carpetbaggers to emerge

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...

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The DA rather humuorously told IOL News  Maimane, who is also the DA’s premier candidate in Gauteng, said it was difficult to see why the ANC was so upset. “This message is 100 percent...

Yes that was me on 702

Pissed Nomonde off – good she needs to hear certain realities.  My argument is that BEE will not survive these codes.  They are not implementable.  Her counter argument is that...

Incentivisation using a sledgehammer

The new codes and scorecard, unveiled at the summit, aim to incentivise black ownership more strongly by penalising companies that fail on the ownership element of the scorecard. The formula to...

NEEEF conference in Windhoek – 26/27 September 2013

The Namibian empowerment landscape has fascinated me for the last five years or so. My interest was piqued when Hartmut Ruppel called me from Windhoek and asked me to help with a BEE issue at a mine...

Bram Fischer letters

Now why would Bram Fischer be of any interest to me?  You might well arsk.  It all comes back to one Tottie Krige (whose real name seems to have slipped my mind).  Tottie is somewhat...

Tiger’s contorted Vodacom tangle

And so spake the Independent yesterday One of the losing consortiums in Vodacom's R7.5 billion black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction claims that the cellphone company lied about its...

Thami Mazwai – The media make mountains of ANC molehills

There is no denying that Zuma, like other leaders in business and politics all over the world, has erred in some instances and may still err — but not deliberately. However, there is no justification...

Time bomb keeps ticking for ANC – julle se fok die korporaal

It is clear that there is an element of political expediency in the manner in which both the Employment Equity Amendment Bill and Labour Relations Amendment Bill have ridden roughshod over business’s...