Stateproofing expert wins big in BEE High Court challenge - Sakeliga boss Piet le Roux with context

In this vibrant discussion on a major court victory against South Africa’s racist laws that moves into Government over-reach, Lichtenberg’s collapse, Cape Independence, Steenhuisen’s attack and even Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux shares his insights with BizNews editor Alec Hogg. Joins many dots.

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Timestamps

• 00:00 – Alec Hogg: “What the heck are we doing as citizens?”

• 01:19 – Why South Africans empower failing leaders

• 02:26 – Piet le Roux: South Africa’s broken political order

• 04:24 – Collapse of Lichtenburg municipality

• 05:31 – “What the heck” moment: failed towns and failed policies

• 06:29 – Piet on John Steenhuisen’s policy failures

• 08:03 – The Pretoria High Court BEE case

• 09:24 – How Sakeliga stopped race-based air licensing

• 11:44 – Hogg: “That’s flat out racist”

• 12:19 – Le Roux: BEE as domestic sanctions

• 13:58 – Scaling up litigation beyond BEE

• 14:19 – Piet on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

• 15:34 – Hogg: Rand’s impact on free enterprise

• 16:35 – Are South Africans waking up to BEE?

• 17:22 – Cape independence and decentralisation

• 19:07 – ANC’s outdated ideology and looming undoing

• 19:41 – The power of 100 NEC members vs 60 million citizens

• 20:58 – State-proofing as a national survival strategy

• 22:28 – “The state cannot balance itself, we must balance it from outside”