Post by cjm on Dec 4, 2016 10:25:37 GMT
Bribery: Yet bad more news for consumers
WE were a little concerned, here at the Mahogany Ridge, that the average bribe amount in South Africa had risen almost 10% to R2 200 over the past year, an increase that was well above the inflation rate.
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Some respondents spoke of backhanders of more than R1-million, another indication of the scale of inequality in our society. It’s not just at Shoprite Checkers where it would take the average worker some 3 500 years to earn the R100-million the chain’s outgoing CEO, Whitey Basson, is getting this year.
It is this sort of tom that is leading a principled liberation movement astray, according to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe.
Addressing a Castro memorial service, he said the Cuban leader had cautioned that whenever money was involved, people took their eye off the revolution. This may explain why they’re so dirt poor in Havana.
“When we go to conference of the ANC,” Mantashe was quoted as saying, “there is a lot of cash flow. . . This prostitute called imperialism is deviating us, it is seducing us to take our eye off the ball.”
The President’s eye, however, remains firmly on that ball. He has said so himself — albeit with a slightly paranoid edge in his voice.
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WE were a little concerned, here at the Mahogany Ridge, that the average bribe amount in South Africa had risen almost 10% to R2 200 over the past year, an increase that was well above the inflation rate.
...
Some respondents spoke of backhanders of more than R1-million, another indication of the scale of inequality in our society. It’s not just at Shoprite Checkers where it would take the average worker some 3 500 years to earn the R100-million the chain’s outgoing CEO, Whitey Basson, is getting this year.
It is this sort of tom that is leading a principled liberation movement astray, according to ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe.
Addressing a Castro memorial service, he said the Cuban leader had cautioned that whenever money was involved, people took their eye off the revolution. This may explain why they’re so dirt poor in Havana.
“When we go to conference of the ANC,” Mantashe was quoted as saying, “there is a lot of cash flow. . . This prostitute called imperialism is deviating us, it is seducing us to take our eye off the ball.”
The President’s eye, however, remains firmly on that ball. He has said so himself — albeit with a slightly paranoid edge in his voice.
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