Russell Lamberti

Executive Director and Chief Economist @Sakeliga | Christus Victor

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Why does the South African state systematically attack businesses?

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The state mounts incessant waves of destabilising general and race-targeted attacks on the productive economy. It does this to sustain its commitment to at least three core imperatives and paradigms.

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[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Healthcare nationalisation efforts have another bad day. Great result for @solidariteit.

So far ⬇️

🔵 State currently barred from implementing NHI.

🔵 State at risk of having to redo slow, costly legislative procedures.

🔵 State's plan to tell doctors where they can practice - a pillar of NHI - declared unconstitutional.

🔵 Major substantive cases lined up against NHI (incl Sakeliga and Solidarity) if the state gets past current hurdles.

Plus...

Sakeliga is preparing opposition to:

- the state's plans to racialise healthcare supply chains and licensing.

- healthcare price controls.

- healthcare overregulation.

Healthcare nationalisation must be crushed.

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴 Sakeliga welcomes Concourt judgment in Solidarity case against "central pillar" of the NHI Act

The Court recognised the professional freedom of medical practitioners, the operational realities and rights of private health establishments, and the importance of patient care. 🧵

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

@Dutchmom990208 Glad you enjoyed it and found it valuable 👍

[Nate Fischer @NateAFischer]

Important essay to understand impact of AI on labor market.

While the author focuses on artisanal services, another category will be even more important: high-trust communities, networks, and institutions.

Building these may be the biggest opportunity of the coming age.

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

@pietleroux It just so happens these two guys discussed this very thing over the weekend 👇

https://t.co/89FInjTciZ

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

@pietleroux Fact check: 4*.1*%

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Fact check: 4.1%

[Piet le Roux @pietleroux]

For 100 million South African Rand: which country recently made it illegal to employ more than 4% white male electricians per company?

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Sometimes you gotta do a reaction video 🤷‍♂️

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴 WATCH: President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa has no race-based laws.

Full reaction from Piet le Roux and Russell Lamberti 👇

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Business owners: If you've been raided and harassed by the Labour department as recently happened at Normandien Farms, add your voice here. ⬇️

[NEASA @NeasaNews]

EMPLOYERS,

Following an unlawful inspection at Normandien Farms involving inspectors of the @deptoflabour, members of the Portfolio Committee on Employment and Labour, Department of @HomeAffairsSA, @_cosatu and armed members of the @SAPoliceService, NEASA urges you to complete a survey to determine how often this occurs.

Follow this link to learn more and share your experience:
https://t.co/mkMahtEAbI

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Race trip

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴 LATEST: SANRAL's new draft policy would require private roadside businesses to meet race-based ownership and hiring targets.

This includes petrol stations, restaurants and roadside shops.

Here's what it’s demanding 🧵

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

https://t.co/yT2kMCti0J

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

These three imperatives and paradigms are deeply ingrained at the level of state power and vital political interest.

They energise and fuel constant and escalating attacks by the state against productive, independent, and distributed communities and spheres of society.

In South Africa, these attacks are carried out in a web of regulatory, legislative, and executive manoeuvres and purportedly legitimate process.

This makes it difficult for many, both locally and abroad, to properly diagnose that this indeed constitutes both systematic general as well as race-targeted economic attacks designed to lay claim to value by striking at the vital economic and social interests of business owners, employees, and the families and communities they sustain and serve.

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Sakeliga's mission is to meet, neutralise, and reverse these attacks at scale.

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Why does the South African state systematically attack businesses?

***

The state mounts incessant waves of destabilising general and race-targeted attacks on the productive economy. It does this to sustain its commitment to at least three core imperatives and paradigms.

🧵

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

3. Value-flow (not value-creation) paradigm

In this paradigm, value is not created and exchanged for mutual benefit and problem solving (growth). Rather, it is a fixed quantity changing hands (flowing) between those who ‘control’ or ‘access’ it (not create it).

‘Doing business’ means some form of favoured access to ‘intercept’ or capture ‘access’ to these value 'flows' by contract, confiscation, regulatory control, or crime.

Aside from a failure in ethics, this view also results from economic ignorance and business naivety, reinforced by the self-fulfilling conditions of persistent stagnation in South Africa created by imperatives 1 and 2 (political resource allocation).

Conversely, the thinking that there is 'only so much economy to go around' (fixed pie) compels even more central economic gate-keeping (1) and rationing according to a racial hierarchy (2), resulting in a destructive feedback loop.

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Useful summary of yesterday's foot-and-mouth hearing.

Full Substack piece here:
https://t.co/tgMV6UYLdN

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴 BREAKING: The Pretoria High Court has ordered Agri Minister John Steenhuisen to finalise a scheme for unsupervised private foot-and-mouth vaccination by 17 April.

The Minister was also ordered to pay costs.

Here's the latest 🧵

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Litigation focuses the ministerial mind

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

At the last minute, the Minister presented a proposed scheme contradicting his previous position.

On this u-turn, the judge remarked: "When death knocks on the door, then presto", and "If you look at what the [Minister] has said on public platforms, it goes totally against his attitude now."

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Powerful speech by Piet at the BizNews conference.

"Transformationism is the very embodiment of an unsustainable South Africa."

Fortunately, resistance has never been greater and is strengthening.

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔵  "The essential principle of transformationism is displacement of white people and other minorities..."

- Piet le Roux (CEO, Sakeliga) at @BizNewsCOM

[Russell Lamberti @RussLamberti]

Our transformationism is AI-proof