by LUKE ZUNGA
JOHANNESBURG – NATIONAL Dialogue is admitting of failure and that the President is within the cocoons of the DGs.
It is argued that our economic problems are caused by the Director Generals (DGs) or Permanent Secretaries or directors of companies, not the Presidents or the politicians, because the President or Members of Parliament (MPs) do not know what the DGs received in their departments.
Only what the DGs decide gets to the Minister or subsequently the President, unless raised by the media. Voters can remove the President or politicians, and many countries have done so, but the economy will not improve because the DGs, who are not voted for and who promised nothing to the electorate, remain in charge.
To say the least it is abdication by the politicians.
Is it not strange that after 30 years of freedom the government does not know what the problems are and needs to go around with teams of clerks to write what the issues are?
The National Dialogue will deliver such a long list that nothing will be prominent.
The issues and recommendations will be diluted and will take so long to analyse as to what to do.
Yet it is known that the complainants are the poor citizens who are left out of economic participation, unemployed, hungry and bitter.
The solutions can only come out of research, not a gathering of people in a National Dialogue.
It is known that many researchers have submitted the solutions to the departments and companies, but the submissions are held back by the technocrats and never reach the Presidents or boards for decisions.
No Financing to startups factories or any other businesses
All issues stem from one central issue, that all financial institutions, including government funding agencies, do not finance to start a factory or any formal business.
The colonialists left their mark by inculcating this rule into the brains of the technocrats. As a result nobody finances to start factories or any other formal businesses.
Therefore, the economy is solely reliant on the same old businesses, which according to statistics can only add 3% Gross domestic product (GDP) at their best. People who fought for freedom are stranded, because they have no capital.
The technocrats, professionals, directors of companies, all insist black South Africans must start from their own pockets.
As a result the economy stagnates and unemployment increases. When people are not employed, social ills take over such crime, teenage pregnancies, higher social bills, fiscal budgets cuts, poor service delivery and the momentum of the country stalls.
Further, there is no method designed to start formal business. There is also no method of handling the funding for starting businesses.
The technocrats use the bank method which was not designed for starting businesses. The bank method also transfers the money to the bank account of the applicants, because banks only accept experienced operating applicants.
The number of formal businesses should be 5% of the population. South Africa is at 1.7%, and is short by 2.1 million formal businesses.
How then does South Africa germinate new formal businesses which are required to provide employment.
The solution is not something a National Dialogue can work out. It requires researchers, not shouting in a hall to be noted by dialogue clerks.
It is difficult to start factories, but subsection 1(b) of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act 53(2003) provides for facilitating.
To facilitate going out there and make sure things happen. The DGs refuse and the president does not know. We brought a case to the high court about this to try to alert the president.
Foreign investors
Instead of digesting the recommendations on the solutions, the technocrats advise governments to attract foreign investors, a tried and failed strategy all over the Global South.
The President and politicians don’t ask, where are these foreign investors going to come from? The investors allegedly come from Europe and America, even when the Americans are kicking, South Africa still hopes for American investors. There are no foreign investors to solve South Africa’s or any other countries’ problems.
Before colonisation nobody talked about attracting foreign investors. There were no foreign investors. The topic of foreign investors did not exist. People were doing things on their own.
In Zimbabwe there is the Zimbabwe Shrine(derogated as ruins). Local people built them.
There is proof of the first manufacturing and planning in the Blombos Caves in the Western Cape around 200,000 BC when black people mixed ochre and other herbs to make paint.
Mapungubwe was built on riches. The Zulu nation built their own systems. There were no foreign investors to talk about.
The Afrikaners did not wait for foreign investors. They organized finance for Afrikaners to start farms, mines, construction and other businesses.
China, which was not colonized, adopted their own method of funding startups. The free South African government does not do that.
This idea of foreign investors was planted by the British into the minds of educated Africans to control germination of formal businesses elsewhere so that they dominate the supply chain.
Compared with China which was not colonized. China started its own development model which in the end also attracted foreign investors when they found that it was working.
Organize Capital within the country
That brings us to the topic of capital. Capital can be organized within countries. For ten years the DGs in South Africa suppressed the submissions and any discussion on ways to organize capital.
No matter how South Africa will dialogue, it will end up that there is no capital.
Practical ideas on how to raise capital were placed on a website www.organizecapitals.com to get the messages over the technocrats to reach the citizens and the President.
Hopefully the citizens of South Africa will read for themselves rather than wait for a National Dialogue.
– CAJ News
