Professor Richard Calland’s article (Business is at the crossroads and both routes lead to radical change, June 15) offered good insights into the problem facing our country. Sadly, he does not begin to grapple with the realities. Successful businesses pay the taxes that make the apparatus of government possible. Destroy that base with ill-considered transformation and there is nothing left with which to fund the government. Most successful businesses are a combination of capital and skills, entrepreneurial and technical. For larger black participation in the productive economy at executive level, schools must improve their standards radically and universities must concentrate resources on fields of study that promote business growth. How does Economic Development Minister [Ebrahim] Patel propose to resolve those concentrations of mostly white monopoly capital, other than encouraging the companies to steadily develop and promote non-whites into executive positions? The government la...
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