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The toxic trade-off

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 because of an Eskom wage dispute, and to witness angry workers trash Nelson Mandela Bay. Clearly not on the same scale, there is still some similarity between those actions and that of using women and children as shields in military conflict, or children as suicide bombers. Whoever the perpetrators are, they will vehemently defend the ends as

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Debunking “monopoly capital”.

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 such as “capital”. I’ve been guilty myself, and it’s nothing more than sloppy thinking or emotive spin if it is aimed at the multi-dimensional accumulation and deployment of money. That has many forms: governments, central banks, financial services and banks, institutional investors, holding companies, multi-nationals and very large companies.

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The hole in the jobs bucket.

Jerry Schuitema

Jul 10, 2017
5 min

The hole in the jobs bucket.

And the three dimensions of radical government transformation. If you promised the Government that you could create 48-thousand new jobs in a few months they would dance at your feet. Yet, that is the number of jobs that were lost in the formal non-agricultural sector in the first quarter of this year, according to the latest Quarterly Employment Survey. What it reflects is that counteracting all the efforts to create jobs, are those being lost where they exist – like filling

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