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, and all that will do is hamper profits and efficiency as resources are dedicated to court battles rather than getting on with business.
It will be easy to just say that we’ve strengthened transformation laws but we’ve been strengthening corruption, crime, and whistleblowing laws for years and what a big help those have been – said in my best sarcastic tone.Without some form of target for the law, we neither know whether the law is worth it nor whether it will be effective. We’re basically shooting in the dark with a big gun, hoping it will get the killshot and not hurt anybody else.
Often that’s a justifiable transaction – I lose my freedom to rob you, you lose your freedom to rob me, we make robbing a crime, and everybody feels a bit safer. I mean, I don’t mind that limitation actually, though it feels very much like taking apartheid’s strategy of parliamentary sovereignty and shoving in a steroid suppository, but just tell me what it’s supposed to do!It’s not good enough that we’re handing power to fix a problem from elected representatives to the president’s buddy, and we haven’t even decided on how the problem solved will look.
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