President Cyril Ramaphosa at the historic first Black Industrialists and Exporters Conference at the Sandton International Convention Centre in Johannesburg. (Photo: GCIS)
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Premium: ANC just doesn’t get it. Subsidies to special interest groups never work.
It's high time someone explained to the ANC how subsidies to special interests have never worked for the public good. And never will.
START YOUR MORNING BY LISTENING TO TODAY'S BIZNEWS BREAKFAST BRIEFING – Tesla beats expectations, sells Bitcoin; Tech stocks keep rolling; Why Cele must go; Solidarity Fund cash only paid to black businesses
I was rather taken aback, as you surely will be, to discover that SA's supposedly public benefit organisation called the Solidarity Fund is only disbursing post-July-riot cash to 100% black-owned businesses. That is the thrust of my colleague Mike Appel's excellent interview with Sakeliga's Piet le Roux.
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