Positive results from collaboration with businesses too little too late
02 April 2024 - 14:22
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The three priority focal areas mentioned may have achieved some results with the government. If so, one must applaud positiveness wherever it is achieved. However, it can only be the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
SA has one of the highest daily murder rates in the world at 80-plus per day and other crime is rampant, to such an extent that the police are not able to protect citizens or maintain law and order.
The article was illustrated with a picture of wind turbines. The few that operate in this country do not make a difference to the electrical power security of this country. Energy minister Gwede Mantashe is hell-bent on protecting the 280,000 coal workforce and is certainly not entertaining alternative and sustainable energy production.
Government corruption is continually being exposed. The National Prosecuting Authority being underfunded allows the ANC and its puppet minnow partners to run riot. It has been estimated that R1-trillion has left the country since 2016, a large chunk of it in the last three years.
The joint strategic oversight committee, B4SA and government are unhinged from SA reality — Transnet and harbour efficiency, clean water availability and sanitation remain compromised.
Eckehardt Ficinus Dunkeld
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LETTER: Unhinged from reality
Positive results from collaboration with businesses too little too late
Having read Martin Kingston and Nolitha Fakude’s article, one wonders if they are living in the same country as ordinary South Africans (“Big business’s collaboration with government shows results”, March 28).
The three priority focal areas mentioned may have achieved some results with the government. If so, one must applaud positiveness wherever it is achieved. However, it can only be the tip of the tip of the iceberg.
SA has one of the highest daily murder rates in the world at 80-plus per day and other crime is rampant, to such an extent that the police are not able to protect citizens or maintain law and order.
The article was illustrated with a picture of wind turbines. The few that operate in this country do not make a difference to the electrical power security of this country. Energy minister Gwede Mantashe is hell-bent on protecting the 280,000 coal workforce and is certainly not entertaining alternative and sustainable energy production.
Government corruption is continually being exposed. The National Prosecuting Authority being underfunded allows the ANC and its puppet minnow partners to run riot. It has been estimated that R1-trillion has left the country since 2016, a large chunk of it in the last three years.
The joint strategic oversight committee, B4SA and government are unhinged from SA reality — Transnet and harbour efficiency, clean water availability and sanitation remain compromised.
Eckehardt Ficinus
Dunkeld
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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