Readers’Views

‘Immediate action’ will take two years of five-star getaways

I’m assured that immediate action will be taken by the ANC [following looting and attacks on foreign nationals and their businesses in Gauteng].

A three-day meeting is being scheduled at a five-star Johannesburg venue which will be followed by a conference at the Cape Town International Convention Centre to discuss the widespread looting.

Then a week-long lekgotla will be held at the Kruger National Park, in addition to a “Violence Summit” at the One&Only hotel in Cape Town.

This will be followed by the formation of a “war room” and the establishment of a commission of inquiry which is expected to complete its investigation in late 2021.

After that a report will be ready for parliamentary submission and review in early 2022.

During this time, citizens are advised to remain indoors and to install electric fences around their homes/businesses.

Les Thorpe, on Business LIVE

It’s tough doing business in SA

Employment & labour minister Thulas Nxesi boasts about tightening the screws on employers who fail to comply with employment equity laws and warns that to do business with the government, employment equity certificates will need to be produced.

Immediately, three thoughts flashed through my mind.

First, I am glad I do not own a business in SA nowadays.

Second, given the government’s record of tardy payment, who actually wants to do business with it?

Third, President Cyril Ramaphosa is crying out for our unemployment numbers to drop, but his ministers thrive on threatening business at every opportunity.

Someone should please establish a data link between the left and the right hand!

Tony Ball, Durban

Jobs do not just happen

In order for jobs to be created, three things need to occur.

First, the best person for the job must be appointed in every situation — it doesn’t matter if they’re black or white, male or female, gay or straight.

Cadre deployment has hurt our economy in the past, and a company is only as good as the calibre of the people it employs.

Second, strikes, protests and demands must stop as they hurt the economy and could plunge the country into anarchy.

The salaries of workers should be commensurate with the contribution they make to their companies and not be unreasonably linked to the rate of inflation.

Third, a climate has to prevail where new business formation is encouraged, innovation and ingenuity are supported and all expendable rules and regulations are discarded. Fred Haupt, Cape Town