Hearing my father.
From a generation that endured 4 devastations. My father was born in an age of severe deprivation. He was an infant at the outbreak of...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Dec 29, 2019
- 4 min
The party pooper.
Have the fiscal warriors thrown down the gauntlet to unhappy workers? Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy statement...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Aug 12, 2019
- 4 min
An unemployment reality check.
The impact of behaviour on the unemployment crisis. We have become a nation of takers. Without recognising this we will not fully...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jun 17, 2019
- 5 min
Weathering a financial storm.
The power of changing some of our economic assumptions and promoting flexibility. The global trade wars remind one of a see-saw in a...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jul 9, 2018
- 5 min
The toxic trade-off
And the stakeholder war that is destroying the economy. From any point of view, it was a sad day to experience the recent power outages...
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Jerry Schuitema
- May 7, 2018
- 4 min
The corporate cauldron.
Reflecting on the wider issues of the Steinhoff scandal. If there is one conversation that I would love to hear, it is that between...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Mar 3, 2018
- 4 min
Popular or populist?
President Ramaphosa’s difficult choice. Not all popular leaders are good; and not all good leaders are popular. Sometimes the right thing...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Oct 16, 2017
- 4 min
The wealth distribution obsession.
To the point of Incapacitating wealth creation itself. It’s a cliché, I know, but one can only imagine the positive change that is...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Jul 25, 2017
- 5 min
Debunking “monopoly capital”.
Refocusing on the essence of creating wealth and value for all. One cannot legitimately apply the word “monopoly” to generic concepts...
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Jerry Schuitema
- May 29, 2017
- 4 min
Grabbing land in La-la Land.
A groundswell of clearheaded action to counter the populist hysteria in the land issue. If there is one thing that the economic gods will...
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Jerry Schuitema
- Mar 9, 2017
- 4 min
Creating customers creates jobs.
Is the focus on the role of capital too singular and misplaced? You have to hand it to the capital supremacists. They have convinced...
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