President Ramaphosa’s ANC, “says it's concerned
about the negative impact high data costs has on ordinary South Africans,
especially workers, young people, students, and women[i].”
HA-HA
Sending critics to bark at the wrong tree
is an old tactic but the ANC is so useless at it. For starters, what women are
they referring to?
Our women are busy picking up pieces from
family and community breakdowns. When they have personal-time it is taken up
ensuring they or someone close isn’t murdered, raped or assaulted.
WHAT STUDENTS? Student dropout rate reports fill our newspapers[ii].
The ANC response … drop standards. What is the name of the game - building a
pool of competency[iii]
or delighted certificate holders?
WHAT WORKERS? On top of the Eskom failure
which Eskom believes it can fix by firing staff, and the continuing slide of employment
numbers in industry, farming (more coming soon) and mining, “President
Ramaphosa’s administration is planning to lay off 30 000 public servants …[iv]”
This isn’t a case of common sense lost …
it is much more serious. The persistence of the ANC in doing little right … not
even managing a toll road … indicates, surely, that its respective leadership levels
have mostly been drawn from the wrong half of the nation’s IQ Bell Curve
profile?
OR A HIDDEN AGENDA?
Pinocchio was born into poor circumstances
and to get out he made some naughty unsuccessful moves but eventually he decided
to be a man for the world[v]. It
seems some ANC-folk have chosen to continue as the world’s puppet certainly
in terms of willingness to continue supporting the current international monetary
system while abusing it locally.
“What has gone wrong with our nation?” – attributed
to David Mabuza, Deputy President. Ask
the New York Times and your colleagues.
WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE?
We have none. We have people who have been
forced to be old before they’ve had their youth. They fight daily for survival knowing the more active they are, or the lower the class in which they live, the
greater the gamble.
ANC-democracy is constitution-paper thin
and even then they rip bits out.
The people got an inedible vote and lots
of empty promises. Not even the ANC-seniors network has democracy … does their
growth in personal wealth indicate a share in the banking and corporate run Greed
Capitalism processing? Greed is a long way from the democracy of sharing growth
and opportunity.
UNEMEPLOYMENT IS THE
WORST EVIL
It is a fair
assumption to make that when a South African is fired he or she is either the
home-maker or a significant breadwinner. Why add 30,000 to the millions of unproductive minds and bodies we already
have Mr President?
Our folk are losing the
greatest anchor of all … hope.
But the ANC knows all that
hence the crazy schemes like professing concern about data cost and taking land
without thought.
When the BSAP Company took
the land in what became Southern Rhodesia and sold it on, the new owners had to
undergo intensive farmer-education before being let loose. Have we learnt
nothing in 115 years? Yes, and it shows as we head for more malfunctions and
performance fall-off. Where ever we look, from municipal bankruptcies to pot holes
and poor water management, that’s the case.
THE COST OF
UNEMPLOYMENT IS KILLING SA
Lowered
production costs equals higher profits - the goal of any self-respecting
business owner. It is the sacred mantra by which modern business is done[vi]. But
SA is not a business. It is a community of nearly 60 million, who, because we
haven’t found a better way yet, need money-income to live or at least subsist.
The ANC claims
staff reductions are “part of government’s cost-cutting measures” but exactly
the opposite will be achieved. Look no further than Zimbabwe of 1998-ish[vii]
and Greece continuing[viii].
The more the
ANC shrinks the economy by reducing the number of consumers the greater the
number of businesses bankruptcies because of lack of customers … it is classic chicken
and egg.
Building
consumers by reducing the idle is not a new golden-rule but how family and inter-community
businesses were run. Everyone, the mentally challenged too, had a job and with
it came self-respect. The customs of the Matabele and Shona as they were
applied when knitted communities still existed ensured there were no beggars.
Unfortunates were either given paid work or ‘financed’ to work towards self-employment
and owning their own kraal.
Probably
because it just so obvious our politicians cannot see our problem is simply the cost of unemployment.
GIVE AWAY JOBS - WATCH REPAYMENTS POUR IN
Metaphorically … If it
means paying millions to dig holes, do it because not only will massive savings
be chalked up against social (crime for one) and economic (ill-health overload for
example) issues but millions of jobs that desperately need doing will be done,
and every salary paid makes a consumer[ix].
If a president insists on
firing people, fire him for the experience. If SA had a proper political party,
one where the MPs had real constituency responsibilities and was a party of the
people for the country, that would happen, but there isn’t.
For now treat workers as (like
maize or gold) a commodity: When there is too much labour “government must buy
up surplus stock at a set rate … and release it into the market in good
(times)”[x].
And stop saying “we haven’t
the budget”. Look to the big picture … build better budgets through full
employment.
NATIONS ARE NOT HOUSEHOLDS[xi]
A family has to balance expenditure
against income otherwise they end up in a hole but a nation cannot run out of
money … SA owns printing rights to the Rand.
Outside of corruption, ineptitude
and an canny ability to chase away skills … now Gracia and Oliver Kabango have
left too[xii]
… our ONLY task is to find a champion who is prepared to stand up to the EU,
USA, WB, IMF, Bank of China and JP Morgan, Wall Street commodities and derivative
gamblers and price setters, and say …
“Together …
we will start a national community
bank[xiii],
create jobs, reposition our exports, re-tool education to meet emerging needs,
alter the law to ensure private business accept that social responsibility and
environment protection are primary cost-inputs.
We will fund a national service
with the primarily goals of lifting the disadvantaged into the economy, ensuring
job creation targets are not just met but optimally performed, and of infusing in
all South Africans a Rainbow-nation culture of respect and care for one-another
no matter their tribe.
We will do it not just by creating
our own money to do what is needed but we’ll ensure real assets are created,
assets which will benefit SA forever.”
NO ONE WAY STREET
As we’re going to do as the
“big-daddy” 1st World countries (US, EU, UK mainly and now China too)
believe only they are allowed to … issue our money via our banks … to kick-start
our rebuild, our future, the Rand cannot be allowed to leave our borders[xiv].
To continue to allow free Rand flight as has happened the last 24 years is to
allow their Reserve Banks, speculators and bullies to junk us[xv].
To do otherwise will be to experience
what the US under Bush initiated to sink Zimbabwe.
Then, ANC, we’ll need terabytes
of cheap data … to sit on our bums and play games.
[ii] The latest salvo … https://www.enca.com/south-africa/pandor-concerned-by-high-drop-out-rate-at-sa-universities
... But the rot starts at kindergarten.
[xv] When the combined weight of US banking and corporacy took down the
Asian Tigers not a shot was fired. They simply destroyed the Tigers’
currencies, walked in, and paying a few cents in the dollar for hundreds of
millions of hours of hard work took over.
Mahathir alone was smart enough, quick
enough and brave enough to stand up. In 1998 he copied the China model and
introduced currency controls which saved and restarted Malaysia’s climb out of
poverty. To compare what Malaysia did with what we should would make an
interesting thesis … anyone?
