The Chinese Communist party recently came out with the three main principles that they believe were essential to sustained economic growth, they were as follows; Property rights as the foundation, the rule of law as a safe guard, and morality as a support.
What is interesting about this is that these principles are the self-same as those that led to Europe and Americas industrialisation and economic prosperity. If these things led to the growth of the new emerging power-house and the growth of the existing powerhouses of Western Europe and America, surely we should be listening.
However, our government seems to have ignored these and wants to forge ahead on a counter-productive mission. Firstly, the protection of property rights is constantly being eroded in South Africa through the expropriation of land, the continued questions of land redistribution and the constant escalation of taxes on property owners. Secondly, the rule of law in South Africa is becoming a joke; with our top cops being convicted of crime to the ANC challenge of the independence of the courts, we are fast becoming lawless state. Finally, the moral fibre of our country is seriously in decline; gang rape, murder, and widespread corruption are but a few of the scourges ripping apart our moral fibre.
This paints a bleak picture of the economic future of this country and if our government is intelligent they will pay heed to the successes of other countries. If they do I believe we have the potential of achieving incredible growth in order for there to be a better life for all.
They will never to stop to rape, to steel en to be corrupt for the next two hundred years. Look at JZ who is Christian Pastor and has 4 wives and , 1 fiancee the daughter of Khoza his best friend. In 2009 he had only debts.Now he spends 56 million on his little township in KZN, spends a fortune on his 6the wedding, etc. And Tutu is shocked that the Netherland is less generous. ANC-All noted crookes.
ReplyDeleteLance, this kind of thing freaks me out! Why do we have to reinvent the wheel? I realise this is about economics but I'm going to talk in terms of education.
ReplyDeleteIf we have budget for education, why don't we just find the best education system in the world and buy it? We don't need or have time to develop an education system with an African identity. If that is our goal we'll just fall further and further behind the rest of the world.
And if the argument is that our children will lose their African identity, why don't we do what Portuguese families have been doing for decades. They send their kids to Portuguese school where they learn the language, dance, dress, etc. I think an extra-mural Zulu School sounds great (although I haven't really thought it through very much.)