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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
    I've been wondering...

    What would business be prepared to do as protest action against something that they really objected to?

    Unions would go on strike and stage a protest march (at the very least). But I can't see business resorting to a lockout - or a protest march.

    Any ideas?
    Join your local Chamber of Commerce. Businesses should use forums and business bodies to lobby for their rights. Chambers also operate on a national basis and should use their collective powers to fight corruption and wasteful expenditure, assist in formulating Govt policies and the like.

    Considering the nearly R400 million that will be spent on upgrading Zuma's residences and offices, the increasing billions of wasteful and unaccounted expenditure by the state, businesses and taxpayers are in for a very very hard time ahead.

    Mr Moleketsi Mbeki has predicted that the Govt will run out of money by 2020 as it will no longer be able to sustain all the grants, free housing, free water, free electricity and other social benefits to its supporters. At the rate that Government is stealing, the proverbial s#!t will hit the fan by 2013.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blurock View Post
    Join your local Chamber of Commerce. Businesses should use forums and business bodies to lobby for their rights. Chambers also operate on a national basis and should use their collective powers to fight corruption and wasteful expenditure, assist in formulating Govt policies and the like.
    Except all this "abuse" has been happening while these structures are in place and lobbying

    So what else can be done to be taken more seriously?
    Because from what I'm seeing, lobbying isn't doing it.

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    Maybe the chamber management and business leaders are too cosy with Government in order to promote their own interests and not the interests of the members. There seems to be a general attitude of "what's in it for me, and not what I can do for my country".
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