Some points make a bit of sense.
Is it not corruption perhaps? Corruption and BBBEE are separate concepts. State entities have been destroyed by rampant corruption and wilful mismanagement where handpicked individuals are thrust into positions to make sure certain nefarious objectives are reached. Look at SAA under JZ, where Myeni was thrust into position of power despite her shortcomings. Do you think if they wanted a black person to head the airline they wouldn't have selected an educated person from within the corporate office?
Look at what they did to Denel. Do you think an ethical black manager drawn from the pool in the private sector would have allowed what happened? Eskom. It was free for all. Some of the CEO's even awarded families tenders worth hundreds of millions.
Bosasa scandal. Transnet. To name but a few. The recent PPE scandals? Come on.
Sorry for being late to the convo. Blame the crown jewel of BEE -
the ANC wanted power, then they got power and now nobody has power.
Why, despite corruption having been a natural state of the human condition, did Eskom succeed, SASOL, SAPO, etc despite being SOEs? Was it not perhaps that the apartheid govt understood it's importance, kept their grubby paws out of it, but people were also more accountable. The ANC came along with it's toxic ideology that infects everything today, that which has destroyed, sees people dying in various ways, with corruption and crime at an all time high.
BEE is at the core of this ideology, redistribution rather than wealth creation. The redistributor of wealth is extremely inefficient, taking a cut each time, the govt under the ANC banner. Enter comrade deployment. Enter unsustainable social programs. After a few rounds, that full pie is not even a mouthful. Then we take taxes each time as well at unsustainable rates. It disincentives a certain part of the population, causing them to not produce. Witht he last election we heard it from the mouth of a voter walking through sewarge in the street; he'll vote ANC again because he gets his grant.
Had we implemented a wealth creation policies, Sipho would not have taken John's R100 (- 15% VAT - 30% TAX - 10% ANC redistribution gratuity called BEE). Instead John would continue producing, Sipho and would start producing and in a healthy economy, produce at a higher rate than the percentages (which is already too high), flourish. John's business would not be destroyed, see his staff get employed by Sipho (less X percentage due to redistribution shrinkage), John and Sipho would both employ. Hey, I've just discovered the reason for unemployment ... not really, but with current common sense at an all time low, some might buy it.
Then of course, we throw in a few extra B's, BBBEE and gets us that old chestnut that is never really implemented. Yes, you can take the custodians to court, the courts are accessible to all, but not free. The custodians are typically govt departments quite willing to drain and destroy you financially, literally fighting you with your own money. Not because it's the right thing to do, but to defend a toxic ideology that fills teh trough, feeds the corrupt. So how do we solve this problem? Groups like Afriforum? Hell has no fury like a corrupt politician scorned, suddenly Afriforum becomes racists with the likes of forum hero Fence Jumper Paddatjie leading the charge, the stay behind advantaged blindly echoing the BS, voting for more and hoping for a turn at the trough - it's their right.
Then we wonder why our economy is in tatters? We wonder why racism flares up regularly? The population of South Africa is under severe stress, acting like dogs in a small space.
Yet the ANC clings onto that which fills their trough, BEE and comrade redeployment.
Some sane people of all races gtfo at the first chance, rather taking their chances elsewhere. Some sane stay behind because they actually really love South Africa, despite hating what is being done to it.
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