Ramaphosa retrenches workers on his farm

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has had to retrench over 20 workers in one of his farms due to foot-and-mouth disease and bad trading conditions.


Ramaphosa drove to his Ntabanyoni farm in Badplaas, Mpumalanga, himself last month to deliver the bad news to the workers. He told them that 22 out of 46 full-time employees at the farm were to lose their jobs.


The news, which Ramaphosa delivered on the morning of October 25, left many of the workers devastated. Some of them are now appealing on the president "to find ways" to help them feed their families.


The job losses came at a time when Ramaphosa is on a drive to attract investment and create jobs for millions of unemployed South Africans. Reducing unemployment has become one of the key priorities of his administration.


But for Aaron Mokoena and many of his retrenched colleagues, unemployment is now a reality.


Mokoena told Sowetan that the move came as a shock to them and things were going to be harder going into the festive season.

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Ramaphosa retrenches workers on his farm

President Cyril Ramaphosa has had to retrench over 20 workers in one of his farms due to foot-and-mouth disease and bad trading conditions.

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[Tokolotshe]

Kuk one.

Unfortunate the reality of doing what needs doing to survive. The same one businesses has to make. SOEs should be making.

 

[Sneeky]

Kuk one.

Unfortunate the reality of doing what needs doing to survive. The same one businesses has to make. SOEs should be making.

Lol, when it comes to SOE's its just taxpayers money, not money from their own pocket. Highlights how SAA has been handled ( some R50bn+ later) vs say El Presidente's farm.

Taxpayers money is free and has no limit, apparently.

 

[TysonRoux]

Kuk one.

Unfortunate the reality of doing what needs doing to survive. The same one businesses has to make. SOEs should be making.

Something that the unions don't take into account when demanding wage increases - businesses need to plan and budget for the expenses that may occur beyond their control, ....... how many businesses have the unions shut down and put their dumb members on the street?

 

[skeptic_SA]

"Bad trading conditions". He should reconsider who he voted for then I guess.

 

[HunterNW]

Give them work at Eskom or SAA

 

[lkswan747]

I wonder if he followed Section 189 to the T? Does he even know what this section is? He still remains a Ramaphoepol.

 

[ShaunSA]

Wakanda coming sooner than expected for his workers

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Wakanda coming sooner than expected for his workers

WAKANDA FOREVER

 

[Hemps]

Billionaire president and he cant hold onto a couple workers?

Easy come easy go comes to mind on how he earned those billions.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Billionaire president and he cant hold onto a couple workers?

Easy come easy go comes to mind on how he earned those billions.

just tripped and became president, nothing much to it really.

 

[TheChamp]

Billionaire president and he cant hold onto a couple workers?

Easy come easy go comes to mind on how he earned those billions.

Forget about his billions, how is the business that employs those workers doing? I have never seen billionaire shareholders in companies put in their own money to avoid retrenchments.

 

[ProfA]

So when its your own money, fckem and retrench, but tax payers money then retrenchment is blasphemy. Got it.

 

[BBSA]

Forget about his billions, how is the business that employs those workers doing? I have never seen billionaire shareholders in companies put in their own money to avoid retrenchments.

True, except if the shareholder is the government

 

[ArtyLoop]

What an a-hole

 

[konfab]

Forget about his billions, how is the business that employs those workers doing? I have never seen billionaire shareholders in companies put in their own money to avoid retrenchments.

There is a reason why they are billionaires, and that is because they have a financial manager who will tell them not to throw their money after failing ventures.

My dad made this mistake when he poured just about everything he had into trying to keep his factory open such that his workers wouldn't suffer. It ends up just being a black hole that cannot really be filled.

The problem with the Ramamessiah it is that it is capitalism and free markets for me, but socialism and guaranteed employment for thee. I bet you he wouldn't invest 1c of his wealth into any of the SOEs.

 

[Sl8er]

"Rules for thee, but not for mee"
It's-complicated-I-get-it, but-let's-get-to-the-meat-and-pataytas.

 

[Sl8er]

(SNAP!)

 

[TheChamp]

There is a reason why they are billionaires, and that is because they have a financial manager who will tell them not to throw their money after failing ventures.

My dad made this mistake when he poured just about everything he had into trying to keep his factory open such that his workers wouldn't suffer. It ends up just being a black hole that cannot really be filled.

The problem with the Ramamessiah it is that it is capitalism and free markets for me, but socialism and guaranteed employment for thee. I bet you he wouldn't invest 1c of his wealth into any of the SOEs.

He is free to do whatever he likes in his personal businesses, in government he is a servant of the ANC and he must do what the ANC wants, he is free to influence things in the direction he wants but at the end of the day it will always be ANC's decisions.

 

[R13...]

He should at least have retained them over the holiday and bad January period before laying them off. It'd be the humane thing to do. Suppose it wouldn't matter to his critics. Now he's being portrayed as a heartless monster who fires lowly workers just before Christmas.