After more than a hundred years of operation in
Currently Shell operates about 600 forecourts throughout the country. Thousands of jobs are at stake while the ANC, and its prospective coalition partner the EFF, do not care. Both are hell-bent on further entrenching racially motivated statist policies that have no place in a modern democratic
The company cited local BBBEE requirements as the primary factor for its exit. The race-based disempowerment policy also has the backing of the EFF. With the ANC likely to lose its national majority, the EFF appears to be aligning itself with the ruling party in hopes of securing lucrative
Local and international sentiment is at an all-time low. Investors, already disillusioned by the ANC's unviable approach to running an economy, are fleeing
The realisation of the doomsday scenario will expedite capital flight from
As a government in waiting our message to investors is clear: the investment environment will be very different after the 2024 elections. We will take decisive action to encourage entrepreneurs and make it far easier to open a business. We will change industrial policy and labour policy that gets in the way of economic growth and employment and will change the model for empowerment to ensure it actually reaches those in need, while moving away from destructive policies that have scared off investors.
A DA-led government will re-position government as an enabler for economic growth and not as a central planner that currently gets in the way.
On the 29th of May South Africans will have the opportunity to rescue
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