Article: Buy local: minister

I will buy whichever product provides me with the quality I want at the price I'm prepared to pay.

If SA manufacturers can't compete with their international counterparts on price.. they need to provide me something worthwhile to consider them... better quality but not at a massively hiked price.
 
OK, I'll start buying local once these useless cocksuckers in all tiers of government learn to do their ****ing jobs so we don't have to pay billions each year to get contractors to do their jobs...
 
I'll consider buying local if it's easier and cheaper than buying foreign.

Half of the potential suppliers I speak to daily, are more concerned with protecting their margins and their retailers' margins than actually selling goods, so I buy from their local competitors, or Amazon, and have it shipped. Local companies get very little sympathy from me.

Of course the unions and local taxes have made most local manufacturers inefficient and unproductive, so they're hardly ever cheaper. They don't even make the start.
 
Did the Minister arrive in a SA made car?

Was the Minister wearing SA made clothes?

Or is it "Do as I say" not "Do as I do"?
 
Maybe if the government didn't make it so expensive to do business through their unhealthy relationship with unions local manuafcturers could compete on price and quality.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I will buy whichever product provides me with the quality I want at the price I'm prepared to pay.

If SA manufacturers can't compete with their international counterparts on price.. they need to provide me something worthwhile to consider them... better quality but not at a massively hiked price.
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Agree 100%
 
I'll always buy local if I can, even if it's a bit more expensive. I think it's a good idea and important. Everyone here who works and earns money in South Africa depends on people buying locally, be it products or services and the more money that circulates in the local economy the better for everyone
 
Government should protect local producers who compete against foreign companies who are helped and receive subsidies from their governments.
 
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Local will never be cost effective with all our unions striking at every turn demanding higher wages.
 
TEID, Total Economic Ignorance and Denialism, that's what I would like to label it. Red Rob is totally clueless with all his subsidies, import duties and constant utterances that "We can not take part in the race to the bottom !"
Denying millions of poor a job. Our so revered motor industry is solely kept alive by the APDP program, R 10-12 Billion tax payers money per year.
Pathetically South African, should that organisation of clueless Adv Lesley Sedibe be called. When SA manufacturing is not competitive, we must look at the core, underlying issues, not try to fix it with putting ever more buckets under a leaking roof, the whole roof has to be replaced.
The latest WEF, World Economic Forum rates SA as a whole on the 53rd place , but on places 140-144 out of 144 countries, when it specifically rates labour stability and regulations.
About 10-15 years ago we were still ranked 34 or 35th.
In Mzansi people are not interested to work very hard and disciplined in factories and on the fields for not so attractive wages. Salary levels as a whole in most sectors are too high, have numerous economists admitted. Especially in the public sector, and very unpopular to say, especially for the unskilled. Unskilled municipal workers earn R 5000 to R6000 PM, for doing very little. Most small companies can never afford wages like that for their lower workers.
SA really has to come down from it's High Horse, get down to earth, and produce value for money in our services and products. Increase productivity and competitiveness and restrain, stand up to those vacuous labour unions.
Sorry, MyBB forumites, this is my Hobby Horse, Economic Development, not Decline as it is under that union man Ebrahim Patel. Even Lesotho, that strange mountainous thingy in the belly of SA, is bound to have an economic growth of 5.9%. SA is struggling with 2%. Many industries from here have reallocated just across the border, while about all factories in neighbouring Qwaqwa, Puthadichaba and Botshabelo have closed, here in FS.
 
and so is e-tolls 100% local?

And yea.. with us being taxed I buy cheapest...
 
ToxicBunny said:
I will buy whichever product provides me with the quality I want at the price I'm prepared to pay.

If SA manufacturers can't compete with their international counterparts on price.. they need to provide me something worthwhile to consider them... better quality but not at a massively hiked price.
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While this is true, I try to buy local where I can. Things like fresh produce, meat, beer, wine etc. Consumables.

The pretentious pricks that consume only imported stuff as some kind of status symbol :erm: The kind of thing other ministers'd do ;)
 
Marcan said:
TEID, Total Economic Ignorance and Denialism, that's what I would like to label it. Red Rob is totally clueless with all his subsidies, import duties and constant utterances that "We can not take part in the race to the bottom !"
Denying millions of poor a job. Our so revered motor industry is solely kept alive by the APDP program, R 10-12 Billion tax payers money per year.
Pathetically South African, should that organisation of clueless Adv Lesley Sedibe be called. When SA manufacturing is not competitive, we must look at the core, underlying issues, not try to fix it with putting ever more buckets under a leaking roof, the whole roof has to be replaced.
The latest WEF, World Economic Forum rates SA as a whole on the 53rd place , but on places 140-144 out of 144 countries, when it specifically rates labour stability and regulations.
About 10-15 years ago we were still ranked 34 or 35th.
In Mzansi people are not interested to work very hard and disciplined in factories and on the fields for not so attractive wages. Salary levels as a whole in most sectors are too high, have numerous economists admitted. Especially in the public sector, and very unpopular to say, especially for the unskilled. Unskilled municipal workers earn R 5000 to R6000 PM, for doing very little. Most small companies can never afford wages like that for their lower workers.
SA really has to come down from it's High Horse, get down to earth, and produce value for money in our services and products. Increase productivity and competitiveness and restrain, stand up to those vacuous labour unions.
Sorry, MyBB forumites, this is my Hobby Horse, Economic Development, not Decline as it is under that union man Ebrahim Patel. Even Lesotho, that strange mountainous thingy in the belly of SA, is bound to have an economic growth of 5.9%. SA is struggling with 2%. Many industries from here have reallocated just across the border, while about all factories in neighbouring Qwaqwa, Puthadichaba and Botshabelo have closed, here in FS.
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Hi Marcan, while I do agree with you 100% that a lot of employees are overpaid for certain positions, I have a question. These days R5000 is not even close to a livable wage. Rental prices, house prices and food prices are ridiculous. So my question is how does one get around that?
 
Jab said:
Government should protect local producers who compete against foreign companies who are helped and receive subsidies from their governments.
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Absolutely and totally wrong. When foreign governments want to subsidise their exporting industries, please let them be that stupid. We, SA consumers must just reap the benefits from it. No import duties.
Protectionism is never benefiting the country on the long run.
The EU has been subsidising their farmers for 4, 5 decades to great detriment of food prices over there and their economies. Sugar from sugar cane was 50% more expensive than their heavily subsidised beet sugar. Through enormous subsidies for farmers, and high import duties for the much cheaper cane sugar. I believe this is toned down by now, but Brussels spent still some 15 or 20 Billion Euros on farm subsidies annually. Total Economic madness.
 
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