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This festive season: the accumulating effects of individual activity - Click To Read Article
There are plenty of good reasons to buy hand-made or bespoke goods. There is the support of individual craftsmanship, high-quality originality, and ensuring that life doesn't become a mass of hum-drum sameness. Declaring that "hand-made" is more efficient and better for the environment is not one of them.

100 Days of Sodom - Click To Read Article
Public Works Minister Thoka Didiza is considering importing an Indian employment model that will guarantee every household the right to 100 days of paid work per year. Didiza, as a representative of the state, is promising people the right to a job based on the premise that not having a job is sufficient reason to get one.

Trevor Manuel and the "Plunder of Skills"
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Trevor Manuel, South Africa's long-serving Minister of Finance, has had a busy time of it. When he hasn't been demanding reform at the IMF, he has been lecturing the US and Western Europe on their theft of valuable skilled people from our nation.

Exports and parliamentary laziness
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There are few moments at which business executives may safely weep and earn nothing but respect and admiration. One of these is at the opening of a new manufacturing plant.

Slaves to land, the policies of Land Affairs
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The land that peasant farmers, or shack-dwellers, live on is frequently either public land, or land that vests in a tribal chief. The residents act to improve that land in some form, either by farming it or building a home on it. Neither the improvement or the land are theirs to trade.

Black Economic Empowerment, like charity, is not investment
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South African businesses have become one of the largest investment blocks in Africa. Many African countries regularly fret that they are losing their local business ownership to their cousins down South. Every sector of South African business is represented in this new scramble to invest; from mining to telecommunications to retail.

Ending poverty means abandoning charity and accepting reality
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Benin Mwangi, who blogs about doing business in Africa, asked me recently: "should the discussion be about how to get the informal sector to become part of the formal sector or should it be how to cater to the informal sector?" This in an excursion into the morass of African poverty and development. The short answer is: neither; ending poverty has nothing to do with the informal sector.

Start your business in Johannesburg but hire your advisor in Cape Town
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Small business development is a crucial part of government's strategy to reduce unemployment and increase black economic empowerment.

Africa, China and Investment
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Welcome to the Central African Republic of ChinaSouth Africa receives more than 20% of the foreign direct investment (FDI) placed in Africa each year. Don't celebrate too quickly.

Jobs are from Mars, Business is from Venus
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It is astonishing the lengths that humanitarian and development organisations will go to avoid talking about business, or to businesses.

The redistribution of poverty
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Governments and social movements the world over often call for the redistribution of wealth; that the people with money and assets should give some of these to the poor. They believe that it is merely the absence of cash that makes poor people poor. They are wrong.

The Miracle of Investment
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"Look here," said the man in the parking lot. "No, I'm not begging. Look at this chair. It is the first one he has made."

The war of informal markets against central states; a bellwether of support
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"When do you think Zimbabwe will collapse?" asked Tama Muru, from the BBC's HARDtalk. "It has already collapsed," said Whythawk.

Do you hate the poor enough to be charitable?
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You're going to despise me, so let's get that over and done with. It is winter in Cape Town. Temperatures plunge to the low single Celsius digits. Worse than that though is the hurtling, searing, icy bullets of rain thrust malevolently in gales that reach over 100 kilometres per hour. You don't want to be living in a plastic shelter in an informal settlement during one of our winters. Millions do.

Killing the Golden Goose, a lesson in Economic Freedom
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Aesop's Fables tell of a Golden Goose that, each day, would lay a single golden egg. The farmer who owned the goose was ecstatic but it wasn't long before his wonder gave way to greed.

Of Capitalism, Socialist Greed, Poverty and Remaining Silent
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It is rare that major businesses dare to stick their necks out and object to government policy. Mostly they're too busy keeping their heads down to avoid all the shrapnel sent their way.

Jacob Zuma, Inflation Denialist?
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The queues in Zimbabwe, that shopper's paradise, were extra long this Christmas. Ordinary people were withdrawing their maximum daily allowance of Z$ 50 million while business owners were shunted to the back. Their allowance is a substantially more generous Z$ 750 million and Zimbabwe Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, said that they could wait.

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Gavin Chait is the principle analyst for Whythawk Ratings, the trusted advisor for many of South Africa's most demanding development initiatives for almost a decade. Chait specialises in economic and enterprise development. He both creates systems for economic and business generation and then project manages these through the implementation phase. Gavin has worked with the University of Cape Town Department of Management Studies in the Faculty of Commerce to develop student entrepreneurial consulting projects. He has a close relationship with the Department of Economic Development and Tourism working on projects as diverse as tourism development and support; and the 1000 x 1000 Project in which 1 000 individuals were given the opportunity to start a business for R 1 000 each. Gavin assisted with the initial project scoping and development of his original idea for implementation at such a large scale. He further wrote the training and feedback manuals to be used in the event and project managed the event. Gavin’s qualifications include degrees in Microbiology and Biochemistry (from the University of Cape Town in 1994) and a degree in Electrical Engineering (UCT, 1998).
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