We live in a technical society, Dr Mazwai
DEAR Doctor (Mazwai). Education, then transformation. Nobody can do the job without adequate schooling first. We live in a technical society. As long as the government continues to undereducate in the technical education sphere, the majority of the population will be unemployable.
The dumming down of maths and science for politcal expediency is long-term suicide for the economy.
Until such time as the political denialists remedy this, you will continue bleating about the current status quo in the economy. As a small business enterprise we are the largest immediate employers of labour. The failure rate of SBE’s is terrible. Could you rather inform us of positive solutions. It would go far further than passing the buck about why after the last 23 years technical education is at its worst and that is why there is no growth.
More comrades on social grants than tax payers. Look at all the great civilisations of the world. They were all technically strong.
Where are we? DAVID WARNER VIA E-MAIL
Looting SA blind, then blame whites
DR THAMI Mazwai’s article, Rupert’s “theft” claim a kick in the teeth for blacks, in Tuesday’s Business Report, indicates just how worried the ANC’s economic architects really are.
Despite the Rupert assisted downfall of Bell Pottinger, that Dr Goebbels-like originator of “White Minority Capital”, Dr Mazwai still continues to mischievously flavour local economics with race.
Rupert understandably sees Rapid Economic Transformation or “RET” as simply new jargon for the same thing – an excuse for the current ANC elite together with their Indian enablers to loot the country blind while blaming everything on the convenient “white” scapegoat.
Nowhere does Mazwai describe what RET actually means. But then keeping such terms as “The final solution” vague and sanitised was just another of Dr Goebbels’s dirty tricks.
The ANC’s economic larder is bare. They have vilified liberal capitalism and the EFF has run off with nationalisation. All the ANC has left is a stinking potage of klepto-socialist nonsense sweetened by the increasingly poisonous sugar of government grants. JAMES CUNNINGHAM CAMPS BAY
He did not even get my name right
APART from other debatable opinions, Thami Mazwai in Puzzling Politics regarding Rupert’s “theft” claim made some surprising errors concerning me.
He did get it right that I wrote Dr Anton Rupert’s biography. But he misspelt my surname, I am not a “Stellenbosch writer” and he mistakenly assumed that I had departed the ghastly world of state capture. EBBE DOMMISSE VIA E-MAIL
Why can info be omitted for grants?
DR THAMI Mazwai on September 19 uses many column inches criticising Anton Rupert over his comments about radical economic transformation and then pulls the guilt trip on us by telling us that more than 10 million go to bed hungry at night.
I have repeatedly asked the question via the media.
Why is there rampant breeding whereby children are brought into the world without any forethought of how their living, shelter, health and education will be provided?
Why are social grants given when the birth certificate does not have the fathers name?
Why must every form I fill in be correct in every way but an application for a child grant can omit this vital information?
Unfortunately no one seems to be able to answer my questions other than to say: “It’s the culture”, which is understandable, but then I ask why must I pay for someone else’s culture/traditions?
Taking responsibility for one’s actions seems very foreign on this continent. TONY BALL PINETOWN