Mailbox: Business absorbing one ‘unreality’ after another

Regular columnist Cees Bruggemans wrote about the dialogue between government and the mining bosses. He basically says the relationship is in a pickle and wondered how far it has to go, before reality intrudes once more with the next instalment of failures, closures and shrinkage. In this response, reader Alfons Mauchie gives kudos to Cees but says the situation needs to be exposed further. While Cees talks about MUFFLED SOUNDS, Alfons says these sounds should become a CLARION TRUMPET call from business, that things must change and that they will become an agent of change for what is right. Take a look. – Stuart Lowman

From Alfons Mauchle

Hi Cees,

Very well put.

It is something that needs to be exposed further.

Business has been like a sponge just absorbing one unreality after another!

We need to have some real leaders here!!

Not kowtowers!!

In fact, I am dismayed at how disunited, fragmented business have been!!

No one speaks up, while the pressure just builds.

Are they waiting for this to go beyond the point of no return??

The media are already in the pocket of the ANC, including 702.

Now that the ANC control all the Gambling licensed operations through their union proxies, it seems they want to do the same with everything else, including mining.

The communication seems to be clear: to hec with the population as long as we (ANC, cadres and 100 black industrialists) own everything!!! This is nothing but the “Mugabe”(Zuma) tactic.

I appeal to you, to continue your “reality” check pressure, but it needs to be increased by a few 100%.

Jobs will be lost, of that you can be as certain as there is gravity on earth.

Until the ANC changes their policy, and gets rid of the SACP and the Cosatu job destroyers and really starts governing for what they fought for, there is little hope of job creation!!

In fact we need to call on the world finance fraternity, to downgrade SA fast- as that is the only hope of changing direction. (We are no different to Greece-with Papandreou like Zuma, feeding his family to the hilt and doling out money to keep the vote)

Radical, but please give me an alternative.

I know you can’t, nor can they!! Unless there is a real will to change, the country will stay as it is – moribund, and on a path of suicide!!

Harsh I know but for years I have now watched matters get to where we are and all around me say I am negative. Even you confirmed these past weeks that the Rand can fall to R22.50 to the dollar, when I had actually forecast that is would double in depreciation weeks before. But the reality is that my views don’t need a rocket scientist – just common sense.

But if you build your house on shaky foundations, that’s what you get: a collapsing structure!!

(I personally experienced that when a Swiss architect designed a house to be built on clay, and only put in 9 inch foundations. Not one wall was not cracked. That is what we have in SA. Not one thing is running well- all is cracked and falling down, because Zuma has built on very shaky foundations-policies and square pegs in round holes:- and that now includes SARS)

Let’s hope that leaders will focus on business – the true source for job creation, and will pressure the whole country to attend to this first before all else.

Proverbs: Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready: after that build your house. (Prov 24v27).

Are we that morally bankrupt, that we do nothing while 8 million have no jobs, no hope, no real future. How different is that to apartheid?

Excluding anyone whether politically or economically is just not right. It’s actually a crime against humanity to put in leaders that destroy the future of others for their self-aggrandisement and put in square pegs in round holes to protect themselves. (Here I would like to bring an example of SAA and the National Health Laboratory Service. When the 2 capable leaders who ran the services last, they ran them at a profit and with healthy bank balances – now both institutions are cripples, hardly functioning – Mike Myburgh at SAA ran a very efficient operation-until the minster interfered, as did John Robertson at the NHLS which is now totally bankrupt)

What we sow we will reap!!!!

Let’s hope the MUFFLED SOUNDS become a CLARION TRUMPET call from business, that things must change and that they will become an agent of change for what is right.

Kind regards

Alfons

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