Mine power cuts to hurt economy

[Syndyre]

I think its more than that. Take this one JAL accident which was entirely
Boeing's fault and where the JAL CEO resigned although no-one actually blamed him - the evidence was that Boeing USA screwed up in their repair work.
You see in some places people take pride in their work, and they take even more pride in their family name. Not disgracing your family which can be traced hundreds or even thousands of years is probably the no 1 paradigm
these people live by. This goes down to the lowest worker too. You have pride in your work, in your name and you don't destroy it, if you do, no-one
in your family will ever forgive you - the stigmata of disgrace and shame
is very powerful. People don't do stupid things because someone is watching over their shoulder, they don't do them because they are just like that naturally - its part of their culture. Personal ethics play a big role here. It appears that many of these leaders we have in SA in both the private abd public sectors lack them. How do you judge a person's character? Honesty, hard work, integrity, responsibility, dedication.... those values
are scarce among many of the leadership here.

So true.

The government should admit to their mistakes, responsible people should resign and issue public apologies. The government should ask the outside world for help in managing the crisis, even in the form of consultants
or advisors and promise to stick to their recommendations. Above all
people should put the country above their own private bank accounts
and pockets. Its called Patriotism and is different to Nationalism.

Humility is also something many people lack. You screw up, you admit to it,
you hide your face and you leave. Hopefully you find employement in
some low key job somewhere and you're glad of that.

That's exactly what they should do, but the problem is if they had that sort of attitude we wouldn't be in this position to begin with.

 

[Robin Hood]

Make no mistake...The previous govt were also corrupt...The only diff is they took ( whatever the persentage was ) and left some for the country...THIS govt, well, TAKES ALL!!

 

[Moederloos]

Day two of the mine closures.
You would think the mines would be OK on the weekend? I do not recall major loadshedding on weekends in the past?
Have things deteriorated since last weekend? By how much?

http://www.sabcnews.co.za/economy/business/0,2172,163115,00.html

 

[Robin Hood]

...things suddenly is just not opperating correctly...and i cant lay a finger on it...

 

[frozt01100101]

And admit AA and BEE failed, and scrap it with immediate effect.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

oh wait....problem? won't that hurt their pride?

 

[frozt01100101]

Make no mistake...The previous govt were also corrupt...The only diff is they took ( whatever the persentage was ) and left some for the country...THIS govt, well, TAKES ALL!!

Does that really matter in how you state it? The problem is simple:

they. are. idiots.

They need to admit that, and get the **** out. They promised and promised things to the masses to get themselves into power, and now they're living oh so comfortably, while the very people who voted for them are living in squalor and have NEVER seen any improvement in their quality of life (I except the time Mandela was president from this statement. He got things done.)

One problem I seem to notice though, is that they don't see that they are just being duped. They continue believing that it will get better when the same lying jerk in power tells them so, and never open their eyes. -_-

Back to how this affects our economy...it won't matter in a while. It's gonna get crushed.