Martin van Staden was featured in the Cape Argus expressing the FMF’s preference for the Port of Cape Town to be privatised or handed to municipal or provincial government.
Rather than putting the responsibility of road maintenance under the local government, assign an area to a company that has won a fair and transparent tender.
This article was first published by BizNews on 6 October 2023 Eskom continues to collapse, leaving South Africans in the dark and the cold, even as winter
The business-as-usual approach is fraught with risk, which is why the FMF has proposed that Tshwane either privatise the power stations outright, or subject them to a stateproof lease.
Eskom cannot be trusted with “load-limiting”, as the same kind of centralisation is what caused the energy crisis in the first place.
The existing ideological opposition to the transfer of monopoly government industries and services to private ownership is most unfortunate. If the process does not occur, or is delayed, South African consumers will be the poorer.
Many details would have to be worked out, but the principle remains: a new company, flying SA’s colours, able to compete against other international airlines and make a profit.
Despite greater demand, the government has only slightly raised the number of trainee doctor places at government-run medical schools from what it was in the 1970s.
