COVID-19 RELATED CORRUPTION ANC POLICY WAS THE KEY TO THE ‘TREASURE’ by Gerhard Papenfus What recently transpired regarding the abuse of the Covid-19 opportunity by a very select group of business people, is not new at all. Buying from the manufacturer of origin,...
The ANC’s vs SA’s interests IS THE PRESIDENT SERIOUS ABOUT CORRUPTION? by Gerhard Papenfus The recent Covid-19 related looting has caused the President to address members of the ANC on jobs for pals, nepotism and corrupt tender processes. Although this...
RACE QUOTAS IN THE WORKPLACE NAIVE AND CONTRA PRODUCTIVE by Gerhard Papenfus Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what...
Open letter to the President SO IT’S NOT ABOUT THE ‘VIRUS’, MR PRESIDENT by Gerhard Papenfus Dear Mr President What has started out as an (albeit misguided) big scare about a virus, has turned out to be your government’s opportunity for ‘radical...
… the Covid-19 ‘opportunity’ … DIGGING A HOLE FOR SOMEONE ELSE … In a previous article, ‘So it’s not all about the virus, Mr President’, I wrote about utterances made by ANC leaders, including the President, to the effect that, in a display of...
COVID-19 LOCKDOWN SORRY MR PRESIDENT, YOU LACK CREDIBILITY For any law or regulation to have proper effect, it needs to make sense, be balanced, rational, reasonable and, above all, be credible. From the moment the ANC decided to utilise Covid-19 as their fortuitous...
