KEITH BRYER: Local business organisations show courage in taking on Big Government

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SA’s intrusive state i the reason we are in the mess we are in

A “massive victory”, an “emphatic judgment”. That was how local commentators saw the recent high court victory by the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber and Pietermaritzburg & Midlands Chamber in a case they brought against the National Energy Regulator of SA’s municipal tariff methodology.

When conglomerates or companies charge arbitrary prices that customers don’t like they lose business. If they trade in a free market, customers vote with their feet and buy alternate products or services. In short, they lose money. By winning their case against this practice because these prices are arbitrary, Pietermaritzburg and Nelson Mandela Bay businessmen and women have struck a blow against the unfettered power of all officials. They have stepped up to the plate in favour of markets where customers have a say and a choice.

SA’s Big Government is the reason we are in the mess we are in. And it applies as much to the as to the municipal bureaucracies of the major cities. Revolutionary chaos and the existential threat of wartime make people in the West expect government to take over everything. Both situations created a boom in government jobs, with numbers rather than quality taking first place.

This rise of the unproductive over the productive has now infected all of SA’s state-owned enterprises and our municipalities — the latter protected by a professional closed shop called the SA Local Government Association, which can enforce pay increases across the board without taking into account local ratepayers’ ability to pay.

 

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