LETTER: A success formula ANC should put into practice
In his book ‘Fighting for the Dream’, RW Johnson offers solutions to the problems facing SA
As the terminally ill SA economy teeters ever closer to extinction, urgent and desperate measures are needed. The country’s president and his cabinet could do worse than carefully studying RW Johnson’s seminal Fighting for the Dream, each word a masterpiece of remarkable insight that spells out how the myriad problems can be solved.
Just one small extract: “A key objective would be to make SA as internationally competitive as possible in order to maximise investment and job creation. For a start, all taxes on investment would have to go. This would mean the abolition of BEE, of all rules governing racially directed procurement, of the Mining Charter and the various other industry charters, and also of affirmative action...
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