Apportion jobs, not blame
You’d think people would say thank you. But no, says Johann Rupert
'South Africans need to pull finger ... and quick'
Remgro chairman Johann Rupert has warned that South Africans need to pull finger ... and quick.Speaking at Remgro’s AGM last week, Rupert — vilified as the personification of "white monopoly capital" by some political factions — said South Africans still argue about the wrong things."I would say it’s time — and it does not matter who wins [at the ANC elective conference] in December — for serious people to get together and discuss serious issues ... We have growing unemployment, almost zero economic growth ... people get poorer and poorer and poorer, and there’s a huge disparity in income."Rupert said he believes the situation will get worse. "The 0.1% will take more and more in the future, because when an Amazon or an Apple is created you realise that information technology is replicable at virtually zero marginal cost."In the old days a bricklayer who laid 60 bricks an hour compared with someone who could lay 100 bricks an hour still had a job — though they did not get paid the sa...
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