BEE bailed out, again

2005-12-22 Dear Comrades, Extraordinary measures are being taken to prop up the so-called BEE in South Africa. It seems that the empowered are wanting to take their free money and walk away, leaving companies back where they started with no qualifying black capitalists. Government will now buy them out but continue to certify the companies as BEE. And there is more weirdness. Read the Business Day and Business Report articles. This kind of thing is apt to get released at Christmas time in the hope that nobody notices, or nobody reacts, or people forget. The Business Day’s article on the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial (called the “Doha round”) is gloomy. COSATU’s summary of this event remains the best so far. Just to remind us how far we have to go, Counterpunch has re-published a scorching interview with Jean Ziegler, UN rapporteur on food resources. The Communist University Please look at the attached diagram. This is how the CU is designed to work from now on. It is also a system which other organisations can use. Wikispace, Blogger, and Google Groups are all free services (so long as you can get connected). SACP, YCL and ANC areas and branches and trade union locals and branches can all use this set-up to communicate with their office-bearers and members. Please allow me to realise this system in full for the Communist University by subscribing (free) to our Google Group either by responding to the e-mail invitation you have received, or directly on the Google Group site. Please help me to escape from the chore of copying and pasting to e-mail forms every morning. Questions are welcome. Yours in struggle, Dominic Links (5): 1. Warehousing, government buys BEE stakes, B Day (2 pages) 2. Second raft of BEE codes, thumbs up, B Rep (1 page) 3. Doha round is looking doomed, Njobeni, Business Day (2 pages) 4. Empire of Shame, Ziegler, Counterpunch (3 pages) 5. Communist University Diagram (1 page)