Adrian Gore: We are too negative about SA

jikajoe1 said:
You forgot to include whites need to share meaningfully and equitably with fellow countrymen, helping to educate those who are willing to study and the infrastructure deficit in so called black areas be addressed.
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There is the problem with this country. Instead of pointing out the individuals and organisations that is doing wrong we like to point out race.... and this will never solve anything!
 
rpm said:
South Africans are too negative about the country as progress that has been made is not acknowledged sufficiently, says the founder and CEO of Discovery Adrian Gore.

Gore, who delivered the keynote at the Discovery Leadership Summit 2016 in Sandton on Monday morning, said that South Africa is regularly framed in a “negative way”.

"We are too negative about our country,” said Gore.

"There's a binary nature about the country - will we survive; won't we survive.

“The point is why create that binary question about success or failure?” he added.

While it is important to acknowledge and tackle problems such as chronic unemployment and inequality in South Africa, Gore said that advancements have been made in certain areas.

These include advances in rolling the world’s biggest anti-retroviral programme to tackle South Africa’s high HIV rate and that South Africa’s economy is four times larger in nominal terms than in 1994.

Other positives include that Eskom, which in 2008 and 2015 experienced load shedding, now has surplus energy, millions have been lifted out of poverty, life expectancy has increased, those in the lower Living Standard Measurement (LSM) 1-4 have halved and murder rates are down.

"Now, I'm not minimising these problems. I'm making the point that they're solvable,” said Gore.

"Because we are so focused on the negatives, we actually don't know the positives,” he added.
Adrian Gore speaking at the Discovery Leadership Summit in Johannesburg (Gareth van Zyl, Fin 24)

South African leaders should also do a better job of setting goals for the country as it engenders a sense that there is something to lose without advancement, said Gore.

"Without loss aversion, there is great danger,” he said.

"We have to make it clear to the people that we lead that there is great potential.

"The world is in fact becoming a better place yet we think it is getting worse,” said Gore.

http://www.fin24.com/Economy/we-are-too-negative-about-sa-discovery-boss-adrian-gore-20161114
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What is he smoking? :wtf:
 
BeerIsNotGood... said:
What is he smoking? :wtf:
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Seems a few people are hooked on it. Whatever it is

So it’s surprising — and perhaps a little disconcerting — to learn that Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, is actually optimistic about the state of the world right now.

"This is a much more hopeful and positive period in history than we have seen certainly in our lifetimes," she told me in early August when I sat down with her in the White House to talk about the Obama administration’s foreign policy. "I tell my kids this: that they couldn’t be luckier to be living in this world at this time."
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terencej said:
Instead of pointing out the individuals and organisations that is doing wrong we like to point out race.... and this will never solve anything!
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Any criticism by a white of any institution is perceived to be racist.
 
Curious, what was the average company salaried increase for employees last year at Discovery?
 
Other positives include that Eskom, which in 2008 and 2015 experienced load shedding, now has surplus energy
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Absolute BS.

For a start, Eskom did not experience load shedding, consumers of electricity experienced load shedding.

Companies that rely heavily on electricity were forced to scale down and this is one of several reasons for economic recession which has all resulted in reduced electricity demand.

Should South Africans be happy about economic recession and increased unemployment?
 
No respect for him now, if he can't tell the truth then he shouldn't be there.
He'd be the first to jump ship as well thanks to his millions earned off sick people.
 
j4ck455 said:
Absolute BS.

For a start, Eskom did not experience load shedding, consumers of electricity experienced load shedding.

Companies that rely heavily on electricity were forced to scale down and this is one of several reasons for economic recession which has all resulted in reduced electricity demand.

Should South Africans be happy about economic recession and increased unemployment?
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Yup, and the really big heavy industry just moved to China.
 
Well, the popular narrative here on MyBB being that of an impending disaster, of doom and gloom, of SA becoming Zimbabwe, of the looming dictatorship in SA, I totally understand why Gore does not have many friends on this forum at the moment.
 
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