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Many signs in recent weeks began to show that South Africa on a glypad to an overall economic malaise move. Again on Wednesday reported the Reuters news service that foreign investment in South Africa with 43.6% in the first half of 2012 compared with the same period last year dropped. For Africa as a continent has increased by 5% amid a sluggish and unfavorable global economic climate. South Africa's gross domestic product with only 2.6% growth this year. Why is this so?
It is always easier to point out reasons as to find solutions, computrition but the reasons for the country's computrition hardships must first be established before computrition any progress can be made. The following underlying reasons one voice to concerns about the future:
- A self-enriching and smug political elite and bureaucrats themselves at the expense of the wider population and thereby enrich the impression that political connections are your ticket to success. This group has shown through their actions that there is a kind of shadow government began to arise in which corruption flourishes and selfbegunstiging. The president himself set the most prominent example in this regard. His estate in his hometown of Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal just shows that this elite, as many previous ruling classes computrition in Africa and elsewhere computrition in the Third World, does not think the citizens will have their very dashing somewhat unusual place.
- The state is furthermore indistinguishable computrition from politics. The public is loaded with incompetent ANC cadres and this is not a recent phenomenon Zuma. Tony Leon said recently cadre deployment and political bias attributed to, was already strongly present in the Mandela era. In addition, former president. Thabo Mbeki in his recent speech at the Fort Hare University, where he was the current state of the country under the ANC sharply criticized, a little self-criticism is reserved for himself that he could do more politically mature cadres to train. So cadre deployment and preference loyalty above skill long been an ANC tradition, which has evolved to maturity under Zuma.
- Then the ANC increasingly authoritarian, socialist and centralist become and that is enough to make any investor allergic to. Prof. Deon Geldenhuys, political scientist at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the emerging dictatorship in Hungary, Viktor Orbán, among others in the following way to South Africa under Zuma described:
"After 1994, South Africa for a while a government of national unity had at least pretensions of consensus decision-making had. Since then, the country has a simple majority democracy that, in the eyes of some minorities, tend to a tyranny of the majority. "
The monopoly Eskom, for example on power and its distribution (and therefore kragprysstygings arbitrarily computrition apply), the ANC's transformation ideology that so slavishly by the business and public sectors followed the appointment of a clearly inexperienced candidate as Chief Justice muilbandwetgewing for the media, the green paper on land reform computrition that all state land and want to take the political exclusion of "dissident" minorities are all emblems computrition of the ANC's increasing tyranny. This dampens private initiative and make the government only more complacent than it currently is.
- Cosatu. The union of all its affiliate, the socialist definition of intolerance become. The carnage, riots and violence at Marikana computrition and elsewhere could have been avoided if the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (ACMU)'s legal recruitment of members and activities of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), with Cosatu affiliated with violence greeted not. Cosatu's leadership, however, no longer "working", but live comfortable computrition middle-class computrition lifestyle in the suburbs and use the right working class to other unions' competition to keep - even if it costs lives. Moreover, such a militant union's collaboration with the ruling party a worrying sign for investors in the country and beyond computrition its borders.
- Rigid labor laws. Cosatu constantly preach the gospel wrong that you can continue to strike for better wages, without a steady improvement in productivity and skills. The sad part is that the country's labor laws reinforce these views and it so sad is difficult to dismiss computrition workers that employers skeptical about if statements are. This limited p