Gavin Came

SARS has announced R2 trillion collection milestone Foreigners have contributed R0 They are just waiting to receive free public goods and services on a silver platter. And will be the first ones on the queue

Make it make sense: Unemployed social media influencers will get taxed for making thousands of Rands...but Somalians dont get taxed - yet Spaza industry is worth billions of Rands! Why does the GNU hate citizens so much? What did we do to deserve a government this pathetic???💔

South Africa has a structural problem no one wants to confront. Roughly 762 000 high income earners fund more than half of all personal income tax. That is an extremely small base carrying the country’s fiscal weight. At the same time, about 28 million South Africans receive some form of government grant. That is not an attack on the vulnerable. Social assistance has a place in any society. The problem is the incentive structure. When a shrinking minority funds the state while a growing majority depends on it, political incentives shift away from growth and toward maintaining dependency. That is how you entrench power. You promise continued transfers instead of expanding opportunity. This is not about blaming grant recipients. It is about holding political leadership accountable for creating a system where too few produce and too many depend. A sustainable country grows its taxpayer base. It creates jobs. It rewards enterprise. It attracts capital. It builds an economy where more citizens contribute rather than rely. If we continue down a path where economic productivity stagnates while dependency expands, the math will eventually catch up with us. And when it does, everyone loses.

Busi Mavuso wrote a nonsensical article about manufacturing. She blames Chinese car imports for killing local manufacturing of German vehicle and wants us to impose tariffs on China. She further claims that ‘Just Energy Transition’ would boost local manufacturing. This is all a load of bollocks. Local car manufacturers or assemblers are suffering not because of Chinese import but simply because of their extortionist pricing. There was a time that cars we export were cheaper outside than they were here. Chinese car manufacturers are offering value for money. That is how capitalism works: Competition! The argument that government should protect local manufacturers in order to protect jobs is a dishonest argument. The Chinese dealership network employs are much more than all these local manufacturers combined. Moreover, these Chinese companies are beginning to set up their manufacturing base here. The demand for government intervention, by people who preach free market and privatisation, in order to rescue capitalism is preposterous. Mavuso’s view that renewables are a necessary impetus for the manufacturing sector is not based on science but a dishonest gospel meant to benefit independent power producers (IPPs). Mavuso represents Business Leadership SA, which advocates for IPPs and cannot be objective on energy issues. What she fails to comprehend is the reality that the manufacturing sector cannot run on renewables. Germany has over 50% of installed energy capacity as renewables yet failed to sustain its manufacturing industries when the supply of cheap Russian gas came to a halt. A number of manufacturing plants shut down as a result. It is pure fantasy that by ramping up renewables it would boost industrialisation and our manufacturing capacity. The media needs to stop elevating these nonsensical opinion pieces by so-called business leaders.

Taking this action so late in the day, after the horse has bolted. Years of low cost import vehicle are now in the market. An increase in levies at this stage will have a significant market correction effect. I suggest it should be phased over a few years to reach 50%. The local vehicle production industry leaders warned of this - years ago. Typical Government knee-jerk reaction after the fact.

I’m sitting here thinking how fun it must’ve been when the apartheid government was glorifying the constitution during apartheid when people were busy complaining that the apartheid laws are oppressive to blacks and favouring whites…Look at those same so called freedom fighters today glorifying the “law” that favours foreigners and oppresses South Africans by simply singing “it’s the Constitution” and we must do things in the confines of that same law‼️‼️‼️