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The portion that parties & politicians receive from the state is not the problematic part.
The problematic part is the portion they receive from corporations and the super rich, in return for policies, tenders and exclusive licenses that end up costing SAns far more.
The rand issuing state can always afford to finance all political party funding, without fear or favour, and to ban private donations, and doing so will cost the public less than the costs of corruption involving private “donations”.
The private sector uses investment pledges to lure the government to deregulate, and then it refuses to follow through while gaining an easier regulatory space even if they continue underperforming.
Businesses no longer produce, they increase profits through accounting without increasing manufacturing.
We don't need a better example than ZanuPF in Zimbabwe, they have completely replaced the Rhodesians only to adopt the WORST characteristics from the settlers such as hoarding land, penchant for conspicuous consumption and elitism while the rest of the population flees or attempts to survive under this new colonial government administered by Africans
This daft laddie wants us to think the evil Xi is forcibly deindustrialising the West - as if that wasn't a deed already done by private investors who had prepared for it from the 1950s - and expects said investors to pour billions into automated industries that won't employ too many workers to make stuff consumers can't afford. Then he coyly mentions 'national security' and 'Russian invasion' at the end as if that's not what he's really boostering for - the military industrial complex and its ancillaries. Which, coincidentally, is also needed by Israel.
This video explains another big question: why Chinese high-speed railways are not profitable, yet China still keeps building them.
That’s because of the long-term calculation of overall social interests by the central government, "The HSR drives the flow of people, traffic and info and all social flows… The incentives on the economy are immeasurable. We always calculate the whole economic impact. It’s about overall social interests."
Well .....
British parliament in 1905,
"Botha and Delarey do not deny in their evidence that there is a want of labour even for the farms, and they also say that they are against the introduction of Chinese labour. But what do they propose? Cronje would make a law which would compel the blacks to work, and Botha and Delarey would break up the locations. They would not allow large collections of blacks as in Basutoland or in Zambezia. They would distribute the blacks on the farms, taxing them less provided they performed such service. Another plan was that bribes should be given to the chiefs on condition that they sent labour"
South Africa's liberal "constitution" is praised as some "best constitution" in the world because it enables criminality.
South Africa's "constitution" is not a response to apartheid or colonialism but a framework for liberal imperialism , this country is a social experiment
China has uplifted over 800m people out of poverty in the last 40 yrs , it's 2026 and just over 10% of Chinese people have university degrees.
Africans are too obsessed with titles instead of substance like building stuff such as roads, railways, water system, etc
The government adopted a policy of accepting any refugee in 1998, just four years after apartheid. It's not just African migrants who are the issue at hand but 8bn people can be refugees in South Africa
No country has such law besides South Africa
South Korea passed a supplementary budget to support its citizens against high fuel prices.
South Africa via its central banks increase rates to make its citizens even more poorer.
Without intellectual pretence by SA educated, none of the nonsense would happen. Qha simuncu!
South Africa remains the only former British colony where importation of labour became policy of the empire as the Natives refused to work for the colonists
Indians were imported as indentured labourers[sugar cane] then the Chinese[gold mines] later African men from across SADC
Where is the constitutionally mandated protector of the ZAR?
s224(2) says he should protect the ZAR without fear,favour or prejudice.
So what happens when the govt (local, provincial or national) does something stupid which introduces the erosion of the ZAR's purchasing power
Why did the @CityofJoburgZA just take out a 20 year loan R3,8 billion at the effective rate of 12,5% per year, from a German bank, if central govt 10 year bond yields are at 9%?
Why is the rand issuing state allowing municipalities to borrow rand at such high rates, from foreign banks, when it just leads to more outflow of currency, a weaker rand, higher municipal rates & electricity tariffs, and higher cost pushed inflation as a result.
The biggest threat to South Africa is the so-called "best constitution" which gives those institutions more power than voters yet government is elected every five years and cannot change how they operate without two thirds majority