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Facing the inevitable- we either take the hard road or we work together going to the IMF

Dear South Africans

I want to urge all of you to read up on the country's affairs and the future. Too many people are relaxed and indifferent about junk status and its long term implications.

its now not about race nor about foreign nationals but about whether or not the ANC can carry the vision of growing the economy alone.

I have been up since 3:30 and it appears that scenario planning reports are all saying that it is inevitable that we will need to go to the that IMF

the resort to the IMF is going to be hard and the ANC will shed some power and there are going to be some civil protests if the state and political interest groups do not develop a corporatist arrangement that prioritizes getting the economy up and growing

the corporatist arrangement needs to:

1. keep a strong and efficient state to ensure redistribution and that will require the trappings of accountability such as a strong PP; intolerance to corruption; a nedlac structure that will need to embrace all unions especially those that are not in the alliance with the ANC; there might need to be alot of NGOs also that will agree at NEDLAC on the volitions and what can be achieved.

2. give more credence to a parliamentary system that is weakened by non cooperation or zero-sum game to such an extent that there is now a desperate reliance on the courts. while the later is not negative at all it simply means that parliament is not crisis ready and cannot work towards the NDP or getting us out of junk or speculative level;

3. the other part of a zero-sum parliamentary system is the views on nationalisation and land redistribution on the current crisis radicalism is actually not going to aid anything but it will exacerbate the urban crisis and

4. ridiculous laws and important laws need to looked at the FICA and the posturing on migration laws are some core examples one is ridiculous you cannot keep non South Africans out you can tax their remittances and leverage off these develop and rate paying but you cant regulate people movement. It is also important to note that the goods moving to Zimbabwe; Mozambique; Lesotho and Swaziland from South Africa are leverage points that can assist SA;

5 the issue of race relations and transformation needs to be discussed at NEDLAC, Parliament and the Courts the populist, opportunistic, dismissalist and zero-sum nature of this issue is not assisting the country but is only used for politicking in ways that are not changing our country for the better...

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