What sensible advice, Mpiyakhe. Just imagine how entrepreneurship will bloom if those senseless restrictions are lifted. Our people are natural entrepreneurs, they simply need the dead hand of government to be cut off. The government's obsession with control is part of such an outdated ideology that it is even laughable — if it were not damaging our economy so much and did not make beggars out of so many of our people who are now forced to stand in long ques waiting for government largesse. It is degrading and totally unnecessary for any able bodied person. It has been proven over and over that people need a purpose in life, and one such a purpose is to earn money for an honest day's work.
The government is causing the poverty, as much as apartheid wasn't a good thing, it's not causing our current poverty, the government is. The media and "analysts" failing to place the moral culpability of poverty with the government makes them contributors to the problem. The reforms never reflect the urgency of the crisis and the first instinct of the government is to throw money at the problem, which just makes things worse by depriving the private sector of capital while providing consumption expenditure for the corrupt.
The opposition is also disappointing because I expected them to use the GNU to put much more pressure on the government to solve the problems. That is why I think politics probably won't make our lives much better, we have to figure out solutions that don't require government changing.
What sensible advice, Mpiyakhe. Just imagine how entrepreneurship will bloom if those senseless restrictions are lifted. Our people are natural entrepreneurs, they simply need the dead hand of government to be cut off. The government's obsession with control is part of such an outdated ideology that it is even laughable — if it were not damaging our economy so much and did not make beggars out of so many of our people who are now forced to stand in long ques waiting for government largesse. It is degrading and totally unnecessary for any able bodied person. It has been proven over and over that people need a purpose in life, and one such a purpose is to earn money for an honest day's work.
The government is causing the poverty, as much as apartheid wasn't a good thing, it's not causing our current poverty, the government is. The media and "analysts" failing to place the moral culpability of poverty with the government makes them contributors to the problem. The reforms never reflect the urgency of the crisis and the first instinct of the government is to throw money at the problem, which just makes things worse by depriving the private sector of capital while providing consumption expenditure for the corrupt.
The opposition is also disappointing because I expected them to use the GNU to put much more pressure on the government to solve the problems. That is why I think politics probably won't make our lives much better, we have to figure out solutions that don't require government changing.