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Chris Hattingh 🇿🇦🌐🚢🏭📈
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Chris Hattingh 🇿🇦🌐🚢🏭📈
@ChrisHatt11
Executive Director @centre_risk
'economics will not obey racial blueprints' -- Albert Luthuli
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Johannesburg
Joined November 2013
- "Volkswagen Group Africa is unhappy that its locally produced vehicles are uncompetitive compared to the imported models of other brands that have no manufacturing investment in the country – because of the additional costs of operating in South Africa."
- A tax increase has never - in the whole history of humanity- been 'temporary'.WATCH | Deputy President Paul has reassured South Africans that the VAT increase is a temporary measure aimed at addressing immediate fiscal challenges. He says government remains committed to long-term economic growth over repeated tax hikes. brnw.ch/21wRm8I
- "Wits Professor Alex van den Heever and I calculate that close to R20bn has been stolen from the Gauteng Department of Health in the last 10 years. The scale of this theft makes former President Jacob Zuma look like a clumsy shoplifter."
- That the UK isn't allowing double-vaxxed, negative-test individuals to still enter the country is doing more to undermine the case for vaccination than pretty much anything else.
- The EFF has been excellent throughout this Budget & VAT saga. Attention to detail on point.The EFF has welcomed a high court order, suspending the Finance Minister’s VAT increase announcement. It comes after the DA, EFF and Minister Enoch Godongwana settled out of court. EFF spokesperson Sinawo Thambo says the order vindicates his party. Watch: tinyurl.com/4ex3va28
00:00 - "During the Zondo Comm, 95 members of the ANC were implicated in corrupt behaviour. Of the 95, 5 appeared before the [Integrity] commission. The 90 are still at large in the NEC, the Cabinet, Parliament, and the provincial legislatures."
- "In his eight years at the helm, Ramaphosa has left a trail of commissions, panels, and probes in his wake, which has become a habit that conveniently defers accountability."
- Stage 6 rolling blackouts: Brought to you by the ideology, policies & actions of the ruling ANC
- "Between 2007 and 2021, Eskom invested R680 billion to increase its generation capacity. However, after this huge investment, Eskom produced less power than when it started."
- "KwaZulu-Natal's largest mushroom farm, Denny Mushrooms, has retrenched all its staff, leaving hundreds of workers jobless after an alleged arson attack brought the operation to its knees last September." businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/l…
- Julius Malema's lawyers have demanded that Jacques Pauw's new book, 'Our Poisoned Land: Living in the Shadows of Zuma's Keepers,' be removed from shelves. Go out and buy the book. Buy copies for yourself, family members, colleagues, contacts, anyone. Spread the information.
