MEDIA RELEASE
Statement by Herman Mashaba, Chairman, Free Market Foundation
Does South Africa now have a labour government?
Date: 22 July 2013
Release: Immediate
I can come to no other conclusion. We now have a labour government in South Africa. In response to my criticisms of our country’s diabolical labour laws, which have caused 7.9
The FMF rejects Cosatu’s attempt in its article, Cosatu’s Response to FMF and DA on Labour Brokers, to link it with a political party. The fact that Cosatu graciously hosted the debate between our director, Temba Nolutshungu and Zwelinzima Vavi on the economics of minimum wages in COSATU House, has
Instead of destroying jobs through unwise labour legislation, the government should be exploring every possible way to increase the demand for labour. In order to increase that demand, South Africa needs high economic growth. Such growth has to come from the private sector; from small and large businesses finding new
The FMF’s projects for 2013 include: CIVIL LIBERTIES, competition, ENERGY, good law, GROWTH, health, LABOUR, land reform, PRIVATISATION, and red tape, as well as ad hoc issues as they arise.
Freedom comes in different forms. The labour law challenge we announced yesterday is all about giving people the freedom to decide for themselves what kind of jobs they want to do, what amount of pay they are prepared to work for, and what conditions they are prepared to work under.
ADDRESS BY HERMAN MASHABA,
CHAIRMAN OF THE FMF
AT THE LAUNCH OF THE LABOUR LAWS CHALLENGE BY THE FMF ON 5 MARCH 2013
Master of Ceremonies
Members of the board of the Free Market Foundation
Executive team and staff of the foundation
Members of the Press
Members of the foundation present here today
Distinguished guests
Ladies
I feel particularly honoured and also humbled to be addressing you here today on the occasion of the Free Market Foundation making this important announcement to challenge the current labour legislation.
The spirit of entrepreneurship that previously existed in South Africa seems to have died a tragic death. Where are the entrepreneurs that you could see in the past when you drove around the streets of a township back in 1994? Where are the thousands of thriving and growing businesses that
The so-called farm worker strike in the Western Cape is of great concern to most South Africans, often for very different reasons.
Everyone (except, of course, the culprits) is shocked by the violence that has been committed against the police, farmers, vehicles, motorists, the media, the workers who do not want
The only money a government has at its disposal is that provided by private taxpayers
