LETTER: Cherry-picking over Vodacom does disservice to truth
Friedman would be better occupied repeating the facts rather than perceptions over white-run monopolies
It seems that Steven Friedman will take any bunch of facts and by omission or cherry-picking will make them fit his world view. He quickly moved from the specific Vodacom issue to the general one that big business tends to use its position to keep out newcomers, which is true. However, while the “research” (if research was even needed) finds that big players have many ways of keeping newcomers out, Friedman prefers to highlight only those who live in shacks in Soweto and claims that this is seen as the white man keeping the black man out. If this is indeed the perception, he would be better occupied repeating the facts rather than repeating the perception. As I understand the Vodacom issue, an employee suggested an idea to his employer, which under normal circumstances would mean the idea belonged to the employer. Backed by financiers driving the litigation, the court found he was entitled to compensation, because of the reasonable belief that the manager who said he would be compen...
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