tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81897542228571174062024-02-18T18:23:26.616-08:00Tata ma Chance, Tata ma DAA place for ideas, discussion and suggestions for making South Africa a better place.Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.comBlogger302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-50974290878606940472020-07-30T09:48:00.000-07:002020-07-30T09:48:42.925-07:00DA media statement - DA welcomes Minister Ntshavheni’s commitment to long-overdue Small Enterprise Ombudsman<div align="center">
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Now, the (relatively) new Minister has nailed her colours to the mast by honouring my bill, though more in the breach than the observance.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span class="emblue"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I hope the ANC members who sat with us on </span></span>the portfolio committee <span style="font-family: inherit;">for five years squirm in shame as they realise they condemned small businesses, who they were meant to represent, to two years of unnecessary pain.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.0pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The acting chair of the committee at the time issued a <a href="https://www.parliament.gov.za/press-releases/small-business-development-committee-rejects-private-members-bill" target="_blank">media statement</a> disingenuously claiming the bill was rejected not because of its contents but because it duplicated work the Department was already doing to amend the National Small Business Act. Needless to say, this amendment has not seen the light of day.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">30 July 2020<br />Release: Immediate</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the Minister of Small Business Development, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s reaffirmation to her commitment, first made over a year ago, to table a Small Enterprise Ombudsman Services Bill in Parliament, in her budget speech before the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The DA team in the Small Business Development Committee has for the past six years been advocating for the necessity of such a bill and the establishment of a Small Enterprises Ombudsman in order to tackle the problem of late payments of invoices of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) and the unnecessary bullying by Government and big business.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In May 2018, after four years of research and inputs from small businesses, the then DA Shadow Minister of Small Business Development, Toby Chance, tabled an identically named bill after the portfolio committee was bombarded with complaints from small businesses and pleas for action. Mr Chance took the initiative, wrote and published the bill and, after consultations and submissions from the public, presented it to the committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The fact is that an Ombud service could have already been operating had the ANC members in committee not rejected the DA’s private member’s bill as “undesirable”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Department of Small Business Development has now seen the sense of such a bill and will hopefully keep the flame burning. Minister Ntshavheni was quick to see its relevance to small business stakeholders after taking office in May 2019 and the Department conducted several consultative workshops later in the year where support for such a bill was overwhelming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The DA looks forward to reading the new bill when it is published, and hopes that the Government will not remain talkers in this regard, but become doers like the DA.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We have long believed that small businesses too often find themselves on the receiving end of bullying by Government and big business, not just in late payments but in contractual negotiations, terms of trade and other matters where their bargaining power puts them at a disadvantage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="line-height: 18.75pt; margin: 15px !important;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">An Ombud service which looks after their interests will go a long way to leveling the playing field and creating the conditions for small businesses to be treated fairly and aiding post-Covid-19 economic revitalization through mass job creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Media Enquiries</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Henry Kruger MP<br />DA Deputy Shadow Minister of Small Business Development<br />083 258 5734</span></p></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Richard Maponya was accorded the rare honour of a state funeral
which took place at the University of Johannesburg Soweto Campus. This honour
recognises Maponya’s heroic struggle to build his business in the face of the
apartheid regime’s putting every conceivable obstacle in his way. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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today's governing party to lionise one of its own to
deflect attention from its long history of racist, anti-business rhetoric,
summed up in the pejorative epithet ‘white monopoly capital’. 17<sup>th</sup>
century French author and moralist Francois de la Rochefoucauld had a nice way
of putting it: “hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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late Richard Maponya these past few days has been an eye-opener. In often
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Though much was said, there were four recurring themes –
family, respect for others, hard work and entrepreneurship. Maponya exemplified
bringing them all together in one life, lived with a purpose. He himself worked
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But at another level, the services revealed many of the ambiguities
and contradictions in our society which are hard to reconcile and how politics
invades even the most intimate moments in a nation’s life. The comparative
absence of white faces also reminded me, if I needed reminding, of the deep
racial cleavages still dividing our society. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Maponya, a South African and more pointedly a black business
titan, was accorded the unprecedented honour of a state funeral which took
place at the UJ Soweto Campus. It is convenient for the governing party to
lionise one of its own to deflect attention from its long history of racist, anti-business
rhetoric, summed up in the epithet ‘white monopoly capital’.<br>
</div><a href="http://tatamachancesa.blogspot.com/2020/01/attending-several-of-services.html#more">Read more »</a>Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-87785961967086240902019-11-19T23:07:00.001-08:002019-11-19T23:29:52.397-08:00Keepers of the Light - new book and film on Portland Bill lighthouse, Dorset<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCghHAoBcLEYx8imJkbHOnMzlZsX27RRw2mX2xjqdyeS_Sq5Vdh667Tkvx9EW_SYnmTk6e3hyphenhyphenXxJbp8ItrNXWU_yZAqGwwvpSt0-f6v_FVsoa8zWWOHXdtJAc3NGkQ0quKi7VoLKRq62A/s1600/Keepers+of+the+Light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="954" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCghHAoBcLEYx8imJkbHOnMzlZsX27RRw2mX2xjqdyeS_Sq5Vdh667Tkvx9EW_SYnmTk6e3hyphenhyphenXxJbp8ItrNXWU_yZAqGwwvpSt0-f6v_FVsoa8zWWOHXdtJAc3NGkQ0quKi7VoLKRq62A/s400/Keepers+of+the+Light.jpg" width="400"></a>Two artists from the West Midlands, <a href="http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/" target="_blank">Brendan Jackson</a> and <a href="https://intentional.co.uk/" target="_blank">Geoff Broadway</a>, recently launched their book and <a href="https://vimeo.com/361839398" target="_blank">film </a>about the construction of the Portland Bill lighthouse on the Dorset coast in England.<br>
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They are magnificent works of art in themselves, portraying how the firm of <a href="https://historywm.com/films/chance-brothers-pioneering-glassmaking-technology" target="_blank">Chance Brothers</a> built a global business on lighthouse design, construction, installation, commissioning and maintenance which lasted for over 100 years.<br>
<a href="http://tatamachancesa.blogspot.com/2019/11/keepers-of-light-new-book-and-film-on.html#more">Read more »</a>Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-34956569814401766242019-11-11T02:43:00.001-08:002019-11-11T02:54:27.941-08:00My article in Business Day on why the DA must embrace the entrepreneurial class and exports<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxG1YVN4_wNhnKPGnpqRsFmNn3PYWDRFae6I6hVl-T8qIi1NNl1iEojjQzqEgAPnqT4rA6QSKfUc0wIbxjgO5HEnBJbZLUyno4tF2opiQgSs4Y-BSAG3n47lE2Of0m5FQvFuT9y4-bPU/s1600/Business+Day+article+on+entrepreneurial+class.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="716" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzxG1YVN4_wNhnKPGnpqRsFmNn3PYWDRFae6I6hVl-T8qIi1NNl1iEojjQzqEgAPnqT4rA6QSKfUc0wIbxjgO5HEnBJbZLUyno4tF2opiQgSs4Y-BSAG3n47lE2Of0m5FQvFuT9y4-bPU/s320/Business+Day+article+on+entrepreneurial+class.jpg" width="320"></a>Today's Business Day carries <a href="https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-11-10-entrepreneurial-class-should-be-recognised-for-what-it-has-to-offer/" target="_blank">my article</a> on two "killer app" economic policies for the DA - please enjoy!<br>
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hear Mcebisi Jonas launch his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">After
Dawn</i> in August. The allusion to dawn was not missed, coming eighteen months
after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘New Dawn’ state of the nation speech which
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Things are a lot darker now, and not just because the
ratings agencies are scouring the horizon for signs of an economic upturn,
finding little but thunder clouds. Their assessments are met with determined
statements of intent that we must “do better” but with little of the political
will required to underpin hopes with a realistic plan.<o:p></o:p><br>
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Last week I had a fascinating conversation with my friend
Jonathan Hill, who I've known since our student days at Cambridge University.
The last time we were together in SA was in 1989, when he and his new wife Alex
came for a three week holiday. We recalled how we spent Christmas Eve in Durban
watching the toppling of Nicolae Ceaușescu, president of Romania, and his execution,
along with his wife, the following day. It was a symbolic moment in the
collapse of communism in the USSR and eastern Europe. <o:p></o:p></div>
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South Africa was about to experience its own brand of
freedom, with President de Klerk announcing the unbanning of the ANC and the
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Now Britain, of all the least expected countries, is
undergoing a political crisis, with the traumatic process of withdrawing from
the EU inflaming tensions across the country. In trying to make sense of it
all, I was keen to hear Jonathan's views, which are published in today's <b>Daily
Maverick</b> - you can read the interview <a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-15-why-has-getting-brexit-done-been-so-difficult/" target="_blank">here </a>or in full below.<br>
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BizNews has followed this up with a <a href="https://www.biznews.com/undictated/2019/08/27/community-gg-alcock-gig-economy" target="_blank">summary </a>of the comments and points made by readers.<br />
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Long may this discussion continue, and hopefully it will filter through to the Treasury and Stats SA where the capacity and expertise lies to do the heavy lifting.<br />
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It is interesting that the Treasury's economic growth strategy <a href="http://www.treasury.gov.za/comm_media/press/2019/Towards%20an%20Economic%20Strategy%20for%20SA.pdf" target="_blank">document </a>released yesterday with an accompanying press <a href="http://www.treasury.gov.za/comm_media/press/2019/2019082701%20Media%20Statement%20-%20Economic%20Paper%20Public%20Comment.pdf" target="_blank">statement </a>places great emphasis on the role SMEs will and must play in our growth. Many of its recommendations come straight out of work I did with my colleague Henro Kruger in the 5th term of Parliament between 2014 and 2019 - including his Red Tape Impact Assessment Bill, my Small Enterprises Ombud Service Bill, our focus on late payments and early-stage funding for SMEs, the need to exempt SMEs from regulations and bargaining council extensions and focus on exports, amongst others.<br />
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One topic it does not dwell on is the role of the informal economy in the broader economy. I will be sending my comments to the Treasury on this and other matters. Send comments to Rita.Coetzee@treasury.gov.zaToby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-1840319215154248332019-08-23T08:21:00.000-07:002019-08-23T08:21:08.994-07:00Response to GG Alcock - shattering the myth of high unemployment rate, BizNews<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today, BizNews published my response to an article by GG Alcock which got a lot of reader comments (both positive and negative), due to its contrarian views on the state of the informal economy in SA. I have read both GG's books (Kasinomics and Kasinomic Revolution) and loved them both, and have met with him several times over a coffee to discuss various aspects of the entrepreneurial space. I have no gripes on his point that the informal economy is more alive than most people give it credit for, but was moved to respond in the context of SA's broader development and growth agenda, which his argument fails to address, in my view.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can read it on BizNews <a href="https://www.biznews.com/thought-leaders/2019/08/23/response-gg-alcock-toby-chance" target="_blank">here </a>or read it in full below.</span><br>
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After the DA's poor electoral performance, in which its share of the vote dropped and the Parliamentary caucus went from 89 to 84, a three-man review panel was set up to look into the reasons why and what reforms the party should consider to bring it back to a growth path. So far, there has been zero accountability in the senior echelons of the party, with the exception of the resignation of Jonathan Moakes, the campaign director and former CEO. Instead, the leadership have taken "collective responsibility" for the first drop in the DA's national vote since 1994 - language which we associated with the ANC, not the DA, where personal accountability has always trumped the collective. Not any more, it seems.<br>
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<i>"Wits economics lecturer Lumkile Mondi chaired a
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<i>"...the DA would improve the operating environment
for small firms by ensuring government departments pay them in 21 days, not the
current 30. It would also exempt SMEs from most labour and employment equity
legislation, reduce red tape and return to sector-specific minimum wages with a
new minimum floor of R1,780 a month. "We need a recalibration of the power
relationship between big unions and small businesses," says Hill-Lewis.
"Shop-floor strike ballots should be mandatory and bargaining council
agreements should not be imposed on small businesses which are not represented.
These two reforms alone would go a long way in forcing the two towards a better
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<br />Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-37364196590857573712019-04-26T06:10:00.003-07:002019-04-26T06:10:48.131-07:00Letter in Business Day about corruption in the Dept Small Business DevelopmentYesterday's online version of Business Day publishes my letter about rampant corruption in the Department of Small Business Development. It seems corruption is now everywhere. People laud Minister Rob Davies for his sound management of the Department of Trade and Industry which he has run since 2009 but under his watch corruption has spread like a cancer and Minister Zulu has done nothing to stop it after inheriting the "small bits" of the DTI when her department was set up in 2014.<br>
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Until now. Last month she suspended nine officials on the strength of an Auditor General's report, and I hope this will be just the start of a cleanup process to root out corruption entirely.<br>
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You can read the letter <a href="https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/letters/2019-04-25-letter-corruption-a-sorry-marker-of-lindiwe-zulus-tenure/" target="_blank">here </a>or below for non-subscribers to BusinessLive.<br>
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Minister of Small Business Development, Lindiwe Zulu, must
release the Auditor General’s report on its investigation into corruption by
officials in her department which was finalised in March. She must also
initiate lifestyle audits on all department staff, many of whom are living
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My counterparts were ANC MP Ruth Bhengu, Chair of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Small Business Development and a colleague of mine for the past 5 years on this committee; and Mandisa Mashego, Chair of the EFF in Gauteng. It was moderated by economist, commentator and SBI director, Lumkile Mondi.<br>
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<a href="http://tatamachancesa.blogspot.com/2019/04/manifesto-debate-at-sbi-sme-indaba.html#more">Read more »</a>Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-696945640141751882019-03-20T09:17:00.002-07:002019-03-20T09:17:44.354-07:00My final speech in Parliament<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvoh9fMja7ZtC4i75lzEScQI1XYucJMGaP4lD1P796aGtJrzvculnoG8y78eVJIyBh78EVTreWyThcqYwJQ-Pnqim_xSLiMaS48T5vMujysQUSFEszpnNTjJk6vv1kuXl6LhrCIAif0Y/s1600/IMG-20180917-WA0091.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1040" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvoh9fMja7ZtC4i75lzEScQI1XYucJMGaP4lD1P796aGtJrzvculnoG8y78eVJIyBh78EVTreWyThcqYwJQ-Pnqim_xSLiMaS48T5vMujysQUSFEszpnNTjJk6vv1kuXl6LhrCIAif0Y/s320/IMG-20180917-WA0091.jpg" width="320"></a>On Thursday I delivered my final speech in the 5th Parliament, a declaration on the Small Business Committee's report on our trip to Spain last September.<br>
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I will be writing a valedictory piece closer to the time (or maybe once the elections results have been announced) to share my thoughts on my time as an MP since May 2014.<br>
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from its successes and failures and understand the role government plays in the
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<tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;" valign="top">Dear SBI Members, business colleagues, and partners,<br><br>The first <strong>SBI #SMEIndaba </strong>of the year will be on Thursday, 11 April, at the Bryanston Country Club in Johannesburg.<br><br>We hope you can join us for what promises to be another memorable morning of speeches, debates and inspiration. </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://tatamachancesa.blogspot.com/2019/03/small-business-institute-indaba-11th.html#more">Read more »</a>Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-32799793376071337782019-03-05T23:18:00.002-08:002019-03-05T23:18:29.779-08:00Our economy is in trouble<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUID-FARIeZtD_9l1G0-yYrM_uni8_N-DEpjXSAqEjl2ohliK-RzEqWCmlI5TyddOJm759Y6UUSMRH6bVgk7kPqVqHCFFOf-kZS33bHMz_g_bu0huah4oXxOWDWEI1ko0tTaJCOtTE7Hk/s1600/Screenshot_20190306-083801_Facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="779" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUID-FARIeZtD_9l1G0-yYrM_uni8_N-DEpjXSAqEjl2ohliK-RzEqWCmlI5TyddOJm759Y6UUSMRH6bVgk7kPqVqHCFFOf-kZS33bHMz_g_bu0huah4oXxOWDWEI1ko0tTaJCOtTE7Hk/s640/Screenshot_20190306-083801_Facebook.jpg" width="308" /></a>Just a week after we debated the DA motion on the jobs crisis I saw a Facebook post by economist Mike Schussler which really scared me.<br />
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I shared a platform with Mike a few weeks back at The Wanderers in Joburg where we aired our thoughts on the same theme - the tanking economy and what we must do to turn the ship around.<br />
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But it was the comments on Mike's post that I found most troubling, coming from business owners at the coal face of our economy. You can read them below.<br />
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Ramaphoria is a chimera which has long disappeared and people must get used to the fact that we are in for a few rocky years until our political leaders realise we can no longer run a modern economy that is captured by socialist, racial nationalist and statist thinking.<br />
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Segments of the DA must also wake up and see that any form of BEE is taking this country in the wrong direction. Policy must be de-racialised and focus on ameliorating disadvantage by a laser-like obsession with investment and growth. Why use race as a proxy for disadvantage when you can measure the real thing?<br />
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We must reduce the cost of doing business wherever possible to make it easier for small companies to survive and grow. Current DA policy would exempt businesses turning over less than R30 million from BEE and certain labour regulations. This is a good start but we should go further and replace BEE with EED - Economic Empowerment for the Disadvantaged, conceived by the Institute of Race Relations. You can read about it <a href="https://irr.org.za/reports/atLiberty/files/eed-is-for-real-empowerment-whereas-bee-has-failed" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-66933525635956845012019-02-26T22:29:00.001-08:002019-03-05T23:20:50.864-08:00DA motion on the economy - text of my speech and YouTube video<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOCCGOhaWAGGNGN1xnKU292jEsS4G-jzcSRoVH1fK_87lz8YVRK6d2_myg8hO9-L1TtXORvi7nA1I-_anxUVDp3HU_RA0NfVZWVswi6DuaLTDoOxt8lnE1e8XN5A9mBzsdtrhX1iEilQ/s1600/Speech+in+the+NA+on+the+economy+26+02+19.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="1223" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidOCCGOhaWAGGNGN1xnKU292jEsS4G-jzcSRoVH1fK_87lz8YVRK6d2_myg8hO9-L1TtXORvi7nA1I-_anxUVDp3HU_RA0NfVZWVswi6DuaLTDoOxt8lnE1e8XN5A9mBzsdtrhX1iEilQ/s400/Speech+in+the+NA+on+the+economy+26+02+19.png" width="400"></a>Yesterday evening I took part in the DA motion on the economy with my colleagues Geordin Hill-Lewis, Angle Khanyile and Mbulelo Bara. My focus was on small business and the experience of the Western Cape in reducing red tape.<br>
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You can read my speech below or watch it on <a href="https://youtu.be/MJDDF5Ha2_E" target="_blank">YouTube</a>.<br>
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document. In the ANC’s manifesto, small business gets 13 mentions and in the
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At our last meeting of 2018, we had a long discussion about whether the DA, in my name, could submit a separate minority report and we eventually agreed that it would, instead, be included in the main report.<br>
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MOTION OF UNDESIRABILITY OF THE SMALL ENTERPRISES OMBUD SERVICE BILL [B 14-2018],
dated 24 October 2018 <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-ZA; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Portfolio
Committee on Small Business Development (“the Committee”) received referral
papers from Announcements, Tabling and Committee Report (ATC) of Friday, 25 May
2018 which was the Small Enterprises Ombud Service Bill [B14 – 2018]. The Bill
had been introduced in the National Assembly, proposed as a section 75 and was
published in the Government Gazette Number 41623 of 10 May 2018.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br>
</div><a href="http://tatamachancesa.blogspot.com/2019/02/committee-report-on-my-ombud-service.html#more">Read more »</a>Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-91773814568671940402019-02-03T23:39:00.001-08:002019-02-03T23:39:36.553-08:00Inside Out Perspective: talk on SA's economy and job creation<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZBTw7uqUYRubGMT2RCDaFHA-PUSttJUzIs_kF3dZ9q91-ilGPyvbhrZPN3eVu7YDzvwM54XTOdJ0oPaiSfpuzQT6xmsFNzwzygEMOE5n1Ak6Ent4sxQs4Fx8K1XgSKf_WjVnz3yxUtk/s1600/Inside+Out+Perspective+flier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZBTw7uqUYRubGMT2RCDaFHA-PUSttJUzIs_kF3dZ9q91-ilGPyvbhrZPN3eVu7YDzvwM54XTOdJ0oPaiSfpuzQT6xmsFNzwzygEMOE5n1Ak6Ent4sxQs4Fx8K1XgSKf_WjVnz3yxUtk/s320/Inside+Out+Perspective+flier.jpg" width="320"></a>Last Thursday evening I shared a platform at the Wanderers golf club with economist Mike Schussler and DA colleague Khume Ramulifho on the topic of jobs. The event was the second in a series organised by Dalu Cele, a councillor in the City of Joburg, aimed at giving the public perspectives on current issues from the outside (a guest speaker) and inside (two DA public representatives).<br>
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evening ladies and gentlemen, it’s a pleasure to see you all here at the second
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colleagues Dalu Cele and Nicci Rahn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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ideology fit into our discourse on the economy and job creation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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philosophy and ideology have become very unfashionable words in South Africa.
They have been supplanted by words such as vision, mission and brand identity,
in a world where spin doctors like Lynton Crosby and faceless officials have
come to dominate our language.<o:p></o:p></div>
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we need to understand the political philosophies that underlie the main actors
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Democratic Revolution which is the driving force of ANC ideology. In the NDR, the
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You can read it <a href="https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/opinion/2019-02-01-this-is-why-the-small-business-department-is-still-floundering/" target="_blank">here </a>or the text version below.<br>
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These pages have carried a running commentary on the
performance of the Department of Small Business Development since its proclamation
in July 2014. Heralded by special interest groups as an overdue and bold move
to boost government procurement from black-owned SMEs, derided by
anti-interventionist types as evidence of more government bloat, it has been a
punching bag in our politico-economic dialogue ever since.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Most recently, special advisor to Minister Lindiwe Zulu,
Thami Mazwai, (“A mischievous attack”, 31<sup>st</sup> January) rebutted a call
by the Small Business’s Initiative’s Bernard Swanepoel to do away with the
department and said Parliament’s portfolio committee “have not questioned the
need for the department”. Only the ANC members support its continued existence,
with most opposition MPs including the DA calling for its closure.</div>
<a href="http://tatamachancesa.blogspot.com/2019/02/opinion-piece-in-business-live-why.html#more">Read more »</a>Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-85616302757919653462018-11-29T09:47:00.000-08:002018-11-29T09:47:46.580-08:00Motion without notice read in the National Assembly on the effects of uncontrolled immigration to SA<br />
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the former Minister in the Presidency, Mr. Jeff Radebe, reported to
Parliament's Ad Hoc Committee Probing Violence Against Foreign Nationals in
November 2015, that the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration estimated that
there were between five (5) and six (6) million documented and undocumented
foreign nationals in South Africa, or 10% of the population;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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that studies by the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation found that up to 75% of
spaza shops in Delft in Cape Town and Ivory Park in Johannesburg were owned or
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that the retail sector in our townships and rural areas has been dramatically
affected as a result, leading to anger and resentment among former South
African spaza shop owners; <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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the periodic outbreaks of violence against foreign nationals since 2008
resulting from this anger, most recently in Soweto in August this year;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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upon Government to accelerate the plan of action outlined in the Ad Hoc
Committee's final report which includes securing our borders, professionalising
our police service and improving access to jobs and small business development,
so that long term solutions can be found that eliminate outbreaks of violence
and lead to a thriving locally owned retail sector once again.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-39969723082730605442018-11-29T02:40:00.003-08:002018-11-29T02:41:21.494-08:00Declaration in the National Assembly on Vote 31 of the budget adjustments<br />
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Africa and this House have heard the ANC speak ad nauseam about the central
role small businesses play, or should play, in our economy.</span></div>
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the plain fact is, with economic growth of less than 1% our economy and the
fortunes of small business are going backwards, not forwards.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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department is but a blip on the radar of small businesses struggling to survive
a deluge of red tape, inaccessible government support and an unfriendly
business environment. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is totally irrelevant to the vast majority of them. With the result that it is
incapable of making a dent in the 9,7 million unemployment queue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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businesses have the potential to create millions of jobs in South Africa but
this department has shown little capacity to be the driver of government
initiatives to make this happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-37396374251595102892018-11-21T06:24:00.000-08:002018-11-21T06:24:05.685-08:00Statement by the IMF team after visiting South AfricaThe IMF was recently in SA to assess the state of our economy. Their report bears, in parts, a striking resemblance to what I said in my speech yesterday about what is needed to stimulate economic growth, particularly the second bullet in paragraph 4.<br />
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You can read the report <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2018/11/16/ms111918-south-africa-staff-concluding-statement-of-an-imf-staff-visit" target="_blank">here</a>.Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-9696938785297380532018-11-20T22:45:00.000-08:002018-11-21T08:44:12.732-08:00Speech in the National Assembly: Growth the pre-requisite for jobsYesterday the National Assembly debated the DA's motion on access to jobs and I was selected as a speaker alongside my colleagues Geordin Hill-Lewis (who sponsored the motion) and Gwen Ngwenya.<br>
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While the topic was access to jobs, we agreed that my speech should focus on what was required to create the jobs in the first place, i.e. measures to stimulate economic growth.<br>
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You can view the debate on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz7TD_E9V4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">here</a>, my speech starts at 4:13:20.<br>
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You can read Geordin's speech <a href="https://www.da.org.za/2018/11/cash-and-sex-for-jobs-is-standard-practice-where-the-anc-governs" target="_blank">here </a>and Gwen's <a href="https://www.da.org.za/2018/11/south-africas-big-green-job-killing-machine" target="_blank">here</a>.<br>
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The ANC were on the defensive from the beginning and had nothing to offer the country by way of solutions: they are out of ideas, incompetent, corrupt and stuck in an economic paradigm that will never create broad, inclusive prosperity in SA.<br>
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a few days ago I was in conversation with a Wits masters student about the
future of South Africa. She said she was seriously considering emigrating to
the UK, following many of her friends who had left South Africa in the past few
years. Her reason? The jobs situation here is so bad, and prospects in the UK
are better, even with Brexit looming.</span></div>
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really concerned me is that she and the friends she referred to are young,
black professionals – the sort of people our country needs to be a successful
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<a href="http://tatamachancesa.blogspot.com/2018/11/speech-in-national-assembly-growth-pre.html#more">Read more »</a>Toby Chancehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04052840913419601107noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8189754222857117406.post-65656322834515346042018-11-20T02:08:00.002-08:002018-11-20T02:08:48.581-08:00ANC government’s late payments killing small business development and jobs<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<em><strong>Note to Editors</strong>: This statement follows a press briefing by the Democratic Alliance (DA) Spokesperson on Access to Jobs, <strong>Geordin Hill-Lewis MP</strong>, the DA Shadow Minister of Small Business Development, <strong>Toby Chance MP</strong>, and small business owner Bobby Mabe, on the scourge of late payments by the ANC government which threaten critical jobs.</em></div>
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Small businesses are the life-blood of the South African economy, contributing nearly 60 % of the labour force and 34% of GDP. However, the reality is that, some 80% of South African small businesses fail within the first three years of activity. Many of these businesses fail because of unnecessary burdens placed on them such as late payments.</div>
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