What exactly is a social compact supposed to achieve?
24 June 2025 - 15:57
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What exactly is a social compact supposed to achieve? All areas of SA society have been in steep decline since about 2009, and the best the ANC can come up with is race-based quotas, expropriation without compensation and dictating to investors who must own and manage their investments.
Does anybody think a “national dialogue” is going to change this?
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LETTER: Futility of a national dialogue
What exactly is a social compact supposed to achieve?
Duma Gqubule’s most recent column refers (“Little chance of a social compact during Ramaphosa’s presidency”, June 24).
What exactly is a social compact supposed to achieve? All areas of SA society have been in steep decline since about 2009, and the best the ANC can come up with is race-based quotas, expropriation without compensation and dictating to investors who must own and manage their investments.
Does anybody think a “national dialogue” is going to change this?
Ian Ferguson
Via BusinessLIVE
JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 200 words may be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.
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