Tag: Nicholas Woode-Smith
Basic education – should the Democratic Alliance push for privatisation?
Siviwe Gwarube is the first Democratic Alliance (DA) member to become Minister of Basic Education; an impressive feat that is fraught with peril. The DA did not nearly accomplish all that it should have after forming a government of national unity (GNU) with the African National Congress (ANC).
How to develop South Africa’s economic outlook
South African policymakers learn all the wrong lessons from other countries. Rather than look to the free and prosperous societies of the United States and Europe, politicians and pundits would rather push us to imitate Russia, China, Venezuela, Cuba and Zimbabwe. And even when policymakers identify genuinely good role models, they take the wrong lessons.
Politics and power – focus on South African trade unions COSATU,...
Gargantuan and tyrannical unions like the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU), and National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) have leveraged their power, numbers, money, and capacity to threaten violence, and in so doing hold the economy hostage.
Minimum wage turns job seekers into potential criminals
Raising the minimum wage may seem like a way to help alleviate the plight of working South Africans, but all it really accomplishes is pricing more and more people out of the job market.
The EFF pillars are built to crumble
Since 2013, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) under wannabe despot Julius Malema has had seven so-called non-negotiable pillars. At their core, these pillars are stereotypical, rote policies of an ill-thought national socialist state. In practice, they will be disastrous for this country.
Privatisation is necessary to tackle public sector corruption
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Parastatals, state-owned enterprises, and government interference in the economy all contribute to the...
Apartheid is under new management
The Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA) is not just a perverse, incompetent, and tyrannical piece of legislation, but yet another milestone on this government’s journey to embracing its own form of Apartheid.
Privatise Eskom to reduce risk
There are many problems with South Africa, but Eskom and its continuing descent into darkness and chaos seems to be a symbol for all of it. Corruption, mismanagement, theft, incompetence, ideological stupidity, and now, attempted murder.
