MICHAEL AVERY: Bring-and-braai approach to duties burns business
SA is in the grip of a regime enslaving individual economic freedoms
For all the talk of economic reform and celebrating wins in energy, SA remains in the grip of a dirigiste regime, enslaving individual economic freedoms to dogmatic diktats best exemplified by the department of trade, industry & competition’s so-called reciprocal agreements.
I was facilitating the Steel Masterplan Conference recently where the metaphor of a bring-and-braai emerged describing how we approach tariffs and industrialisation — if one of your mates at a bring-and-braai keeps bringing peanuts while you bring the fillet you are going to let them know. But does it ruin the friendship? Only if you are silent...
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