Far too much time and energy is spent dealing with President Jacob Zuma’s troubles — he’s not above the law Opposition parties have drawn criticism for roasting the president, rather than concentrating on what critics call “the substantive issues” arising from his state of the nation address and the national budget. The fractious elements in […]
Public Service
Open letter to members of parliament and other influential persons in South Africa by Prof Pierre Faure
2015 ECON LETTER TO MPs & DOC
Independent integrity agency is vital to defeat corruption
NOW that lekgotla season is upon us, the leadership in the governing alliance is reflecting on the role of corruption in SA and its effect on the success of the nation. This is as it should be. The general definition of corruption is the abuse of public office for private gain. Most public offices in […]
Homelessness In The New South Africa
The lot of street people, street children, collectively “the homeless” is a terrible and hard-to-face indictment of the caring, compassionate and human rights oriented ethos of the new dispensation in South Africa. Those living in doorways, under bridges, on pavements and in abandoned buildings have a hard life. The indignity of it all cries out […]
Poo Politicking Goes Around The Bend
Wednesday 5 February 2014 is a day that will live in infamy in the annals of the history of Cape Town. Two events, and the very average conduct of some present at both of them will ensure that. A turning point in the promotion of participative democracy was reached and the slope ahead looks somewhat […]
Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry – Job Summit (26th Sept 2011)
Facing up to the crisis Clearly this summit comes at a time of crisis as our country continues to lurch from one strike season to another, when key public service and Business sectors at all levels of employment, from unskilled to highly dedicated professionals such as medical and educational people are under pressure to strike […]
Doing business in a constitutional democracy
It is a pleasure and a privilege to be invited to participate actively in this timely jobs summit. It is also an honour to have so diverse and august an audience. While observing all protocol, allow me to establish the composition of my audience here today: How many of you are South African citizens? How […]
The Truth About Employment Equity
To measure progress and the returns on the national investment in employment equity over the past twelve years by the ‘one size fits all’ measurement of demographic representation is a gross oversimplification and a reckless disregard for the complex nature of organisational development. No matter what is said in general debate about workplace and employment […]
Employment Equity Constitutionally Revisited
It is extremely rare to find a senior cabinet minister excoriating his own government’s chief spokesman in public. When the spokesman in question is also simultaneously president of a business management pressure group, probably due to the inability of his superiors in government to grasp that there is a direct and intractable conflict of interests […]
Made In Dagenham; Perfected In Newcastle? – “Over-Protective Labour Law Dispensation”
The search for what Jeremy Cronin of the SACP calls “a paradigm shift” in the functioning of the South African economy has attracted much heat and dust in the public debate around the clutch of proposed amendments to our over-protective labour law dispensation and the unveiling of the New Growth Plan of government. In the […]
