Muzi
I am busy reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. My description so far is it the animal farm of socialism. There they put the good of the people above everything else. I am at the part where society is falling apart due to social engineering and centralised control. The one thing that struck me, was a meeting with the captains of industry, government and the unions. Unions where insisting on a 10% pay hike but industry couldn't raise prices to cater for it plus the unions wanted guaranteed jobs. Make profit is not socially good. Now all the industry leaders are resigning. I will finish the book but it is heavy reading.

What struck is the similarities with SA. Unions on strike for more wages and students rampaging against fee increases. WTF guys catch a wake up. Now the question is what do the business owners do, I have heard of people closing down companies when they had an adverse CCMA ruling which they didn't agree with, I don't know if that is true or an urban legend. But what is going to happen if business owners just stop employing more people or just close down. Look at Zimbabwe.

Look at the waste of money, millions to D Mpofu from SABC now transnet paying millions for some deal not done. My hope was after 1994 we would have such economic growth we all have to get everyone who is able into business to run it as there would be no choice, what a win-win scenario. But we seem to be on the same path as the rest of Africa with the general populace not being much better off than they were, and the elite becoming more distant from the man in the street. It just seems as soon as something goes wrong then we blame apartheid, racists and the British, instead of using the problems as learning opportunities to help everyone grow. Now if the principles of ubuntu, could be applied that would be great. Look at wikipedia article "a person is a person through (other) persons".

In essence instead of using the past to shape the future a more pragmatic approach of the future being shaped in the spirit of ubuntu.

Muzi this is my take as a white South African am I wrong in saying lets try and forget the past and get on with the future?