Competence should be key
A recent letter to the Financial Mail highlighted the fact that if this country is to prosper we must all acknowledge that we are dependent on each other.
A good example is the Black Like Me success story of Herman Mashaba, who is often touted as one of the successful black industrialists. Of course it took years of dedicated hard work with minimum capital, but dogged determination won through, as it always does.
However, when you read his book, Mashaba himself openly admits that to have any chance of succeeding, Black Like Me needed the expertise of pharmacist Johan Kriel (previously of SuperKurl, Mashaba’s former employer), who joined Mashaba and his partner.
Mashaba’s vision was not clouded by the fact that Kriel would be the only white person in a black company. He sought out the best person possible for the manufacturing side of Black Like Me.
If only our government could display such foresight and vision the country would not be in such a mess.
Until the right person for the job becomes the standard employment policy in SA we will be stuck in a quagmire of poor service delivery, inefficiency and incompetence. peting taxi drivers, owners and associations. They disobey the law at just about every turn, especially when they are unhappy about something. These protests inevitably turn violent. Government and the police should get rid of the leadership in the industry and start implementing and managing strict regulations and controls, as with all other transport operators.
The taxi owners and drivers are a menace and a stain on the daily efforts of lawabiding South Africans trying to earn an honest living, and are regularly a hindrance to our freedom of movement.
They, like our government, mistakenly believe they are above the law and have the right to force, coerce, bully and manipulate the rest of us.
They run their “businesses” through fear, not on sound and ethical business tenets. There is no place for these people in our society.