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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...
JERRY SCHUITEMA
Apr 17, 20203 min read


The party pooper.
Have the fiscal warriors thrown down the gauntlet to unhappy workers? Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s Medium Term Budget Policy statement...

Jerry Schuitema
Dec 29, 20194 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
Aug 12, 20194 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
Jun 17, 20195 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
Jul 9, 20185 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
May 7, 20184 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
Mar 3, 20184 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
Oct 16, 20174 min read


Debunking “monopoly capital”.
Refocusing on the essence of creating wealth and value for all. One cannot legitimately apply the word “monopoly” to generic concepts...
Jerry Schuitema
Jul 25, 20175 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
May 29, 20174 min read


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...
Jerry Schuitema
Mar 9, 20174 min read
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