Phosa accepts endorsement to be the next ANC President

To: Mathews Phosa, nominated for President
From: John Wallis, The People Capital Project s.a., Johannesburg, South Africa. Phone: +27(0)11 804.3896

Dear Mr. Phosa
• Published Report by James de Villiers of News24.
o Your: “Fasten seatbelts, more Zuma shocks coming soon”.
o Comments by Moses Gwija, Mascow Branch Chairperson.
• Mission: “Leadership and inclusive growth to take centre stage at WEF on Africa”, to achieve Inclusive Growth through Responsive and Responsible Leadership.
• ”An Information Supply and Education Reform program to lift the prospects for ACP Ex-Colonies” that, especially in the present context of socioeconomic and political upheavals in South Africa, all African Nations if not all ACP Ex-Colonies should take to heart.
• Our: “Petition to South Africa’s Minister of the Presidency cum Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation”, submitted on 3 October 2016.
• An acoustic, pragmatic and radical empowerment process designed to lift the ‘not ready’, ‘unprepared’, ‘immature’, but willing, onto a sustainable productive career trajectory.

With thanks for the analyses and implied views of your company on how the present may impact on “The Way Forward”, we request you to help boost our efforts to bring about radical development change in Africa, if not in all ACP Ex-Colonies. There simply are far too few worthwhile “consuming-producers”, or “producing-consumers”, which affects prospects of all (South) Africa’s people – Economic Justice is the key component, whilst growing the reach of a prescriptive, organizationally designed solutions for problems – To systemic scale, with the goal of shifting the rules, norms and values that make up social systems.

Meanwhile, the gravity of (South) Africa’s situation, if not of all ACP Ex-Colonies’, is still being seriously underplayed whilst in our opinion you appear to belong to the very few who seem to be prepared to initiate a radical change process and venture beyond the “no risk” situational analysis and tired “Blame Games”. Similarly, along with the widening catch-up distances, what gets lost is empathy, decent relationships and expertise – All of which amount to unstable, corruption riddled and elite rent-seeking environments where the levels of innovation and productivity are predictably too low to be tackled in other than radical scale projects – Parochial projects will simply not to suffice to catch up and for Africa to become a flourishing continent and appreciated partner in the global socio-economy – To bridge that gap Africa needs a home-grown, well-formulated and pragmatic plan that attracts material and financial support, which is what this People Capital Project is all about.
To be sure:-
• Even South Africa’s new re-distribution trajectory is unrealistic, if not push us, if not the entire continent, to the very edge of the precipice – Besides which, uncertainties surrounding Brexit and Trump are no excuse for procrastination!
• A vastly different approach is needed to make development happen, as in economic growth and leaving no one behind – One that instils the missing realistic employment hopes and economic prospects!
• These must be solidly vested on equality of opportunity, instead of outcome, where the rule of inclusion decisively replaces the Africa typical rule of exclusion – Maybe even tradition!
• Summarily, in Nations where economic turmoil and scarcity are rife, “economic dispossession and power accumulation”-driven despotic regimes, that invariably claim “sovereignty rights”, are almost axiomatic – This phenomenon appears to mainly apply in ACP Ex-Colonies and quite a number of left-behind Ex-Comecon- and Middle East-Nations, whilst Latin America materially suffers similar phenomena.
Bottom Line: It is about economic justice, without fear or favour, in literally all respects.

Although, at least at first sight, our proposed approach differs from yours, it is similar in its objectives, but in some kind of “parallel” fashion, whilst dominated by a “full picture” perspective – I hope this to make some sense, but should be seen in the reality that (South) Africa does not have the funding for a capital intensive development drive that concerns the entire Continent, i.e. like the Euro 26 Billion we propose for 5 continental pilot projects.
Hence the need to sell this integrated pilot concept into those parties that can afford such, but needs a sound and globally palatable political-, social- and economic-motivation to succeed and which must fundamentally be vested on democratic, equality, social cohesion and reciprocity principles.
In fact – with the some 65% of our population living in poverty, together with that majority being under-resourced, -educated and -nourished, I am surprised at the relatively high %-age of people that most seem to take as fact to understand what “Democracy” is, stands for and is supposed to deliver; i.e. apart from the huge gap between “Representative and Participative”-regimes – We feel far more continent-wide radical change efforts ought to be ventured, especially in terms of South Africa’s overdue needs for structural reform and development, rather than the multitude of hazy strategy talkshops and unproductive critiques that help few if anyone – And, what the even more hazy concept of “Social Cohesion” means for the majority, plus the masses of undocumented and therefore hard-to-locate foreign refugees making the picture not any clearer – If not the stark opposite and even more difficult to tackle.

Hence, at this stage of (South) Africa’s (Un)Development that we foresaw and warned about for years, we consider it high time for (South) Africa’s central governments to consider our entirely different, integrated and emphatically pragmatic acoustic approach – And, which we request you to help us push into the foreground where it counts.
• Although everyone agrees that a vastly different approach is needed to make development happen, such needs execution with the emphasis on being Structure- instead of Strategy–led.
o As in process-led economic development growth and leaving no one behind.
• It must be about equality of opportunity, instead of outcome, where the rule of inclusion decisively replaces the Africa typical rule of exclusion.
o Both reforms are many decades overdue.
Bottom Line: Everything turns on economic justice in all respects.

In the EU, USA, UN and G7, contrary to the high levels of empathy and goodwill for Africa’s populations for who those of their leaderships and judiciaries are dismal. To be sure, South Africa’s ditching of the EU (GIZ) funded Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (PAJA), Prevention and Combatting of Corrupt Activities Act, the ICC and Rome Declaration by some African nations tell volumes – Predictably, wide-spread consensus in the West about (South) Africa is that:-
• Those in power know that they have to keep saying and repeating the word “Democracy” in order to keep getting handouts (Free GDP or plain theft), and are usually accompanied by a corruption element.
o And, that is the first thing they learned.
• That flow of money will only continue to those in power if they also keep saying and repeating that they are “Anti-Corruption”.
o And, they also know that fact extremely well.
Whilst the knock-on complexities are huge, these we feel are fairly easy to “condense” via the adoption of our proposed structural changes that predict to lead to equitable and fair norms and standards, i.e. in a holistic way.

Besides the above, as stated in the attached Petition, we would also like to draw your attention to the last August debacle for Africa at the WSF (World Social Forum), as the “World People’s Davos” in Montreal. Despicably, Canada factually marginalised Africa as in “Another world is once again being constructed without Africa” by declining to issue countless visas. That event appears to substantially be duplicated in September’s event at the UN – Cynically, what and where is the AU?! Why the short-pay of UN contributions and many of the most developed western nations simply reneging on their funding undertakings?

You may agree that – rather than the mostly almost parochial “do-good”- and “symptomatic relief”-type development efforts for Africa’s some 1,2 Billion largely under-resourced and –educated and fast growing population, that suffers huge GINI coefficients – Africa’s Nations, at the risk of being excluded from benefits, need to adopt one robust continent-wide deconialisation based curriculum that is led by a vocational approach and supported by academia to extract the last grain of value out of propositions – Certainly not the other way around! Simply put, by far most innovations and inventions originate from the “factory floor”, whilst most “foul-ups” are management caused.
• To be sure, such is not an easy sell to the political and academic elite in Africa, where many of the most powerful, wealthy and influential were “indoctrinated” at the totalitarian-communist-apparatchik Leipzig Political Academy.
o Which is why tough-nosed political pressure, drenched with high ethical, moral and democratic values, is of utmost importance!
• Especially so in Africa, if not all ACP Ex-Colonies, where “politically correct” lip-service and cadre employment across all spectrums almost invariably prove the most effective for hand-outs.
o And, where corrupt judges are known to often be politically connected and force legal practitioners “in-line”, at the risk of disbarment and victimisation – Africa is certainly not a place for the weak-hearted!

ADDENDUMS: Although covered throughout this People Capital Project, however unintended, in view of what recently transpired in South Africa and the questions we received from our local and foreign associates, we were suggested to summarise their and our reactions as follows:-

QUOTE

Addendum-1:-
Currently, of course, as a result from the disastrous 2015-2017 battles for the control of the South African Treasury and State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s), as evidenced by State Capture, Capital Flight and Patronage driven “IOU’s”, the outlooks of the so far most lenient Global Rating Agencies have changed from positive (Investment Grade) to disastrous (Junk Status).
Sadly, the previous widely shared local, continental and global optimistic view of SA’s implied ability and acceptance to function as the Continent’s development propeller has now turned into such relationships and mindsets that predict difficult to reverse – At least, into anywhere near what these were for the first years since the global embrace of SA’s 1994 change from the apartheid to the long overdue constitutional democratic dispensation.
Question: Do we, as a continent, really have to revert to the mercantilist world of the 18th century where prosperity was about who controlled trade and who was licensed to do business?- The choice is yours, but has to be seen and heard …………. with colourless scale!
Meanwhile, waiting for Moody’s rating, Africa is also facing the reality of having to consider the (for the time being) effects of the downgrade of Standard & Poor’s hard currency rating to “junk” for South Africa, whilst more serious is that Fitch downgraded both the hard currency and rand denominated debt to junk with results such as: (1) South Africa being dropped from Citibank’s World Government Bond Index; (2) removal of many foreign Fund Managers; (3) cancellation of foreign pension investments; (4) reductions of “Do Good” development and NGO funding, and; (5) high margin currency trading activity, from where; (6) hopefully, the expected outflows of assets and skills will not become tsunamis, but can definitely be expected to lift monopolisation-, cartelisation- and corrupt-levels in the then contracting market place that will curtail SME activities – All of which will not only badly affect South Africa’s already huge unemployment level and economic prospects, but also those of the entire African continent!
In addition, (7) some $10-billion, or R140-billion will immediately flow out of the country = tighter exchange controls, plus inflation and interest rate hikes = “hot money” & currency trader manipulations = more corruption and collusion – Hopefully not another costly FinRand debacle?!
Furthermore, (8) actually needless to even mention, all of which will trigger unpredictable but long chains of negative consequences, such as contracting retail sales that will not only cause widening of the development catch-up distance for the entire continent by at best another decade, but also; (9) the danger of inflation turning deflation (=price destruction), resulting into lower taxation revenues – In turn, fuelling unemployment levels even further.
Finally, (10) what about the resultantly increasing number of the vulnerable whose belts cannot be tightened any further and cannot afford the luxury of fighting the political elite?! – Who are driven by hopes of getting the chance of being facilitated to become part of the political elite that will progressively capture the political economy!

It is not only our opinion that, whatever we do to bring about the long overdue economic and equality turn-around and revitalise the dwindling interest of especially the most advanced western nations, such has to start with a huge “Continental Information Supply & Education Drive” that need to be driven by a shared “Continental Mindset” – In short, one that is primarily based on “Economic Justice”, and understood by all!
Similarly, for Africa’s Nations (if not all ACP Ex-Colonies) to economically survive and prosper in a sustainable way, those nations will need a collective effort to build such transparent “consuming-producer”-, or “producing-consumer”-market place cum trading block that is understood to be of benefit to the entire global socio-economy and will hence attract material and financial development support – Provided such proposal is locally produced and presented as such in compliance with protocols of those “Participatory Democracies”, with the assurance of leaving no one behind and to be of mutual economic benefit!

Addendum-2:-
Many fear President Zuma’s recent appointment of Raymond Zondo as the new Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court to amount to “Justice Capture”. That fear originates from evidence of (A) Zondo’s corrupt practices when he was Judge President of the Johannesburg Labour and Labour Appeal Court and (B) his reportedly R1,2 Million irregular expenditure that amounted to either unjustifiable personal expenses, or plain theft. Upon (however limited) public exposure Judge President Dunston Mlambo of the Gauteng Higher Courts undertook to sort out the mess, took control of those Courts and Zondo was (quietly) transferred to the JHB High Court as a Judge and later (equally quietly) transferred to the Constitutional Court as a Judge.
Meanwhile, President Zuma forgave Zondo J that R1,2 Million debt, and subsequently appointed Zondo J as Deputy Chief Justice. Justifiably, the fear of many that, following the unexpected deterioration of the relationship between President Zuma and Chief Justice Mogoeng, President Zuma appointed Raymond Zondo as the Deputy Chief Justice, which position amounts to “Operational Head of the Concourt”. Hence the fear that President Zuma’s appointment of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo amounts to “Justice Capture”.
Meanwhile, both Mogoeng Mogoeng CJ and DOJ Minister Michael Masutha appear to:-
• Either, be doing their utmost to sweep the shady machinations of Raymond Zondo DCJ under the proverbial rug;
• Or, simply to keep ignoring corruption claims – As in total disregard of the 2nd part of S. 165 (2) of OUR Constitution!
Besides the above it should be noted that, at least for a number of years, it was public knowledge that irregular expenditure of the Judiciary was the highest of all Organs of State, with Correctional Services in second place – Evidently, there are quite a number of horribly conflicted officials in the “Judicial Complex”, as well as innocent people in jail!
On a personal note I wish to state that I would welcome to be challenged by the Presidency, Concourt and/or the Ministry of Justice on the above allegations.

Conclusion:-
Decolonialisation has simply amounted to the transfer of skewed colonial corporatized power into new hands, almost invariably vested on shared benefits between the new political elite and the old elite.
• Equally invariably, where Presidents compromise a handful of cadres, or even the other way around with the president as a prisoner of his own making.
• Then consider the natural tendency for the Political Elite and hired-hand and short-horizon MNC- and Corporate-bosses to opt for “Financial Growth”-, instead of badly needed “Development Growth”-objectives” – With a love for off-shore transactions!
Predictably such environments hardly ever yield economic potential stimulating productive investments that contribute towards sustainable economic growth. Simultaneously, judging from the movements in the GINI coefficient throughout (South) Africa there appears no credible evidence of any correlation between economic growth and social progress – Whilst a growing middle class, which is the most important ingredient for economic growth, cannot be based on anywhere between $1 and $3 per day, as per the hype of countless so-called Developmentalists, Academics and African Leaderships, being the foundation for sustainable economic growth.
Outcome: ”Secrecy, State Capture and Corruption led by so-called “Democratic Centralist Decision-Making” that turns on “Dispossession and Accumulation”-practice.

UNQUOTE

Although this People Capital proposal was not expressly conceptualised to counter the above scenarios, to reiterate, what should be evident from our documentation is that from the very outset we never discounted the possibility of what is currently in play.
Wherefore, before anything else, don’t we have to adopt a mindset that is led by “Radical Objectivism” to make sense of life in this uncertain world?! In this one ought to simultaneously realise that expectations are invariably subjective, plus that the overriding economic situation is constantly fluid and hence demands being adaptable in an open-ended way.
Question: Is this not where “Imagination” has its determinant role to play?!

Unfortunately there are no “How to ……………… in 10 easy steps”- or “Copy-Cat”-solutions to (South) Africa’s deep-rooted problems that not only restore the trust and confidence in our own and our Continental leaderships, but also the ongoing erosion thereof beyond Africa’s borders. It is about history, resilience, problems, underlying causes and seeing how interconnected everything really is, together with their unpredictable multiplier effects. That is where systems and processes, instead of opaque “turf protection”, weigh heavy – To survive, if not prosper, (South) Africa has to advance well-founded and credible proposals to the Developed West, instead of the usual Africa-typical other way around that tend to trigger destructive and zero sum “Blame Games”.

Please note that our 58.500 manhour research and documentation project, excluding our labour intensive manufacturing pilots and proximity tests, is complete, paid for and ready for the implementation phase as set out in the Petition – We are not begging for sympathy money or grants of any kind, but ……….. ACTION.

I hope that the foregoing and attachments not only strike a chord, but also gains your support and influence at relevant quarters.

Kind regards

John Wallis

Should you wish to receive the following explanatory documents:-
• Synopsis-PCP.docx
• Petition-PO-GOV-ZA-3-10-16.docx
• Extract Book-1-p.16.docx
please advise your email address.

PS: As a proactive and concerned Dutch immigrant of long standing, specialised in industrial and infrastructural Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) and Organisational Development (OD), proverbially with one foot firmly planted in (South) Africa and the other in the EU, I am heavily invested in this home-grown attempt to remedy Africa’s growing economic and inequality woes, with the assurance that I am neither prepared to pay lipservice to any Government or Corporate entity, nor led by vested commercial interest scenarios. I am certainly not the only person who is convinced that this People Capital project is “saleable” in Brussels (in a Co-Consensus Agreement), the G7, Donor Nations and UNESCO’s UNU for its economic benefits on all sides of the equation – JW

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john wallis says:

6 May 2017 at 8:29 pm

To: Mathews Phosa, nominated for President
From: John Wallis, The People Capital Project s.a., Johannesburg, South Africa. Phone: +27(0)11 804.3896

Dear Mr. Phosa
• Published Report by James de Villiers of News24.
o Your: “Fasten seatbelts, more Zuma shocks coming soon”.
o Comments by Moses Gwija, Mascow Branch Chairperson.
• Mission: “Leadership and inclusive growth to take centre stage at WEF on Africa”, to achieve Inclusive Growth through Responsive and Responsible Leadership.
• ”An Information Supply and Education Reform program to lift the prospects for ACP Ex-Colonies” that, especially in the present context of socioeconomic and political upheavals in South Africa, all African Nations if not all ACP Ex-Colonies should take to heart.
• Our: “Petition to South Africa’s Minister of the Presidency cum Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation”, submitted on 3 October 2016.
• An acoustic, pragmatic and radical empowerment process designed to lift the ‘not ready’, ‘unprepared’, ‘immature’, but willing, onto a sustainable productive career trajectory.

With thanks for the analyses and implied views of your company on how the present may impact on “The Way Forward”, we request you to help boost our efforts to bring about radical development change in Africa, if not in all ACP Ex-Colonies. There simply are far too few worthwhile “consuming-producers”, or “producing-consumers”, which affects prospects of all (South) Africa’s people – Economic Justice is the key component, whilst growing the reach of a prescriptive, organizationally designed solutions for problems – To systemic scale, with the goal of shifting the rules, norms and values that make up social systems.

Meanwhile, the gravity of (South) Africa’s situation, if not of all ACP Ex-Colonies’, is still being seriously underplayed whilst in our opinion you appear to belong to the very few who seem to be prepared to initiate a radical change process and venture beyond the “no risk” situational analysis and tired “Blame Games”. Similarly, along with the widening catch-up distances, what gets lost is empathy, decent relationships and expertise – All of which amount to unstable, corruption riddled and elite rent-seeking environments where the levels of innovation and productivity are predictably too low to be tackled in other than radical scale projects – Parochial projects will simply not to suffice to catch up and for Africa to become a flourishing continent and appreciated partner in the global socio-economy – To bridge that gap Africa needs a home-grown, well-formulated and pragmatic plan that attracts material and financial support, which is what this People Capital Project is all about.
To be sure:-
• Even South Africa’s new re-distribution trajectory is unrealistic, if not push us, if not the entire continent, to the very edge of the precipice – Besides which, uncertainties surrounding Brexit and Trump are no excuse for procrastination!
• A vastly different approach is needed to make development happen, as in economic growth and leaving no one behind – One that instils the missing realistic employment hopes and economic prospects!
• These must be solidly vested on equality of opportunity, instead of outcome, where the rule of inclusion decisively replaces the Africa typical rule of exclusion – Maybe even tradition!
• Summarily, in Nations where economic turmoil and scarcity are rife, “economic dispossession and power accumulation”-driven despotic regimes, that invariably claim “sovereignty rights”, are almost axiomatic – This phenomenon appears to mainly apply in ACP Ex-Colonies and quite a number of left-behind Ex-Comecon- and Middle East-Nations, whilst Latin America materially suffers similar phenomena.
Bottom Line: It is about economic justice, without fear or favour, in literally all respects.

Although, at least at first sight, our proposed approach differs from yours, it is similar in its objectives, but in some kind of “parallel” fashion, whilst dominated by a “full picture” perspective – I hope this to make some sense, but should be seen in the reality that (South) Africa does not have the funding for a capital intensive development drive that concerns the entire Continent, i.e. like the Euro 26 Billion we propose for 5 continental pilot projects.
Hence the need to sell this integrated pilot concept into those parties that can afford such, but needs a sound and globally palatable political-, social- and economic-motivation to succeed and which must fundamentally be vested on democratic, equality, social cohesion and reciprocity principles.
In fact – with the some 65% of our population living in poverty, together with that majority being under-resourced, -educated and -nourished, I am surprised at the relatively high %-age of people that most seem to take as fact to understand what “Democracy” is, stands for and is supposed to deliver; i.e. apart from the huge gap between “Representative and Participative”-regimes – We feel far more continent-wide radical change efforts ought to be ventured, especially in terms of South Africa’s overdue needs for structural reform and development, rather than the multitude of hazy strategy talkshops and unproductive critiques that help few if anyone – And, what the even more hazy concept of “Social Cohesion” means for the majority, plus the masses of undocumented and therefore hard-to-locate foreign refugees making the picture not any clearer – If not the stark opposite and even more difficult to tackle.

Hence, at this stage of (South) Africa’s (Un)Development that we foresaw and warned about for years, we consider it high time for (South) Africa’s central governments to consider our entirely different, integrated and emphatically pragmatic acoustic approach – And, which we request you to help us push into the foreground where it counts.
• Although everyone agrees that a vastly different approach is needed to make development happen, such needs execution with the emphasis on being Structure- instead of Strategy–led.
o As in process-led economic development growth and leaving no one behind.
• It must be about equality of opportunity, instead of outcome, where the rule of inclusion decisively replaces the Africa typical rule of exclusion.
o Both reforms are many decades overdue.
Bottom Line: Everything turns on economic justice in all respects.

In the EU, USA, UN and G7, contrary to the high levels of empathy and goodwill for Africa’s populations for who those of their leaderships and judiciaries are dismal. To be sure, South Africa’s ditching of the EU (GIZ) funded Promotion of Administrative Justice Act (PAJA), Prevention and Combatting of Corrupt Activities Act, the ICC and Rome Declaration by some African nations tell volumes – Predictably, wide-spread consensus in the West about (South) Africa is that:-
• Those in power know that they have to keep saying and repeating the word “Democracy” in order to keep getting handouts (Free GDP or plain theft), and are usually accompanied by a corruption element.
o And, that is the first thing they learned.
• That flow of money will only continue to those in power if they also keep saying and repeating that they are “Anti-Corruption”.
o And, they also know that fact extremely well.
Whilst the knock-on complexities are huge, these we feel are fairly easy to “condense” via the adoption of our proposed structural changes that predict to lead to equitable and fair norms and standards, i.e. in a holistic way.

Besides the above, as stated in the attached Petition, we would also like to draw your attention to the last August debacle for Africa at the WSF (World Social Forum), as the “World People’s Davos” in Montreal. Despicably, Canada factually marginalised Africa as in “Another world is once again being constructed without Africa” by declining to issue countless visas. That event appears to substantially be duplicated in September’s event at the UN – Cynically, what and where is the AU?! Why the short-pay of UN contributions and many of the most developed western nations simply reneging on their funding undertakings?

You may agree that – rather than the mostly almost parochial “do-good”- and “symptomatic relief”-type development efforts for Africa’s some 1,2 Billion largely under-resourced and –educated and fast growing population, that suffers huge GINI coefficients – Africa’s Nations, at the risk of being excluded from benefits, need to adopt one robust continent-wide deconialisation based curriculum that is led by a vocational approach and supported by academia to extract the last grain of value out of propositions – Certainly not the other way around! Simply put, by far most innovations and inventions originate from the “factory floor”, whilst most “foul-ups” are management caused.
• To be sure, such is not an easy sell to the political and academic elite in Africa, where many of the most powerful, wealthy and influential were “indoctrinated” at the totalitarian-communist-apparatchik Leipzig Political Academy.
o Which is why tough-nosed political pressure, drenched with high ethical, moral and democratic values, is of utmost importance!
• Especially so in Africa, if not all ACP Ex-Colonies, where “politically correct” lip-service and cadre employment across all spectrums almost invariably prove the most effective for hand-outs.
o And, where corrupt judges are known to often be politically connected and force legal practitioners “in-line”, at the risk of disbarment and victimisation – Africa is certainly not a place for the weak-hearted!

ADDENDUMS: Although covered throughout this People Capital Project, however unintended, in view of what recently transpired in South Africa and the questions we received from our local and foreign associates, we were suggested to summarise their and our reactions as follows:-

QUOTE

Addendum-1:-
Currently, of course, as a result from the disastrous 2015-2017 battles for the control of the South African Treasury and State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s), as evidenced by State Capture, Capital Flight and Patronage driven “IOU’s”, the outlooks of the so far most lenient Global Rating Agencies have changed from positive (Investment Grade) to disastrous (Junk Status).
Sadly, the previous widely shared local, continental and global optimistic view of SA’s implied ability and acceptance to function as the Continent’s development propeller has now turned into such relationships and mindsets that predict difficult to reverse – At least, into anywhere near what these were for the first years since the global embrace of SA’s 1994 change from the apartheid to the long overdue constitutional democratic dispensation.
Question: Do we, as a continent, really have to revert to the mercantilist world of the 18th century where prosperity was about who controlled trade and who was licensed to do business?- The choice is yours, but has to be seen and heard …………. with colourless scale!
Meanwhile, waiting for Moody’s rating, Africa is also facing the reality of having to consider the (for the time being) effects of the downgrade of Standard & Poor’s hard currency rating to “junk” for South Africa, whilst more serious is that Fitch downgraded both the hard currency and rand denominated debt to junk with results such as: (1) South Africa being dropped from Citibank’s World Government Bond Index; (2) removal of many foreign Fund Managers; (3) cancellation of foreign pension investments; (4) reductions of “Do Good” development and NGO funding, and; (5) high margin currency trading activity, from where; (6) hopefully, the expected outflows of assets and skills will not become tsunamis, but can definitely be expected to lift monopolisation-, cartelisation- and corrupt-levels in the then contracting market place that will curtail SME activities – All of which will not only badly affect South Africa’s already huge unemployment level and economic prospects, but also those of the entire African continent!
In addition, (7) some $10-billion, or R140-billion will immediately flow out of the country = tighter exchange controls, plus inflation and interest rate hikes = “hot money” & currency trader manipulations = more corruption and collusion – Hopefully not another costly FinRand debacle?!
Furthermore, (8) actually needless to even mention, all of which will trigger unpredictable but long chains of negative consequences, such as contracting retail sales that will not only cause widening of the development catch-up distance for the entire continent by at best another decade, but also; (9) the danger of inflation turning deflation (=price destruction), resulting into lower taxation revenues – In turn, fuelling unemployment levels even further.
Finally, (10) what about the resultantly increasing number of the vulnerable whose belts cannot be tightened any further and cannot afford the luxury of fighting the political elite?! – Who are driven by hopes of getting the chance of being facilitated to become part of the political elite that will progressively capture the political economy!

It is not only our opinion that, whatever we do to bring about the long overdue economic and equality turn-around and revitalise the dwindling interest of especially the most advanced western nations, such has to start with a huge “Continental Information Supply & Education Drive” that need to be driven by a shared “Continental Mindset” – In short, one that is primarily based on “Economic Justice”, and understood by all!
Similarly, for Africa’s Nations (if not all ACP Ex-Colonies) to economically survive and prosper in a sustainable way, those nations will need a collective effort to build such transparent “consuming-producer”-, or “producing-consumer”-market place cum trading block that is understood to be of benefit to the entire global socio-economy and will hence attract material and financial development support – Provided such proposal is locally produced and presented as such in compliance with protocols of those “Participatory Democracies”, with the assurance of leaving no one behind and to be of mutual economic benefit!

Addendum-2:-
Many fear President Zuma’s recent appointment of Raymond Zondo as the new Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court to amount to “Justice Capture”. That fear originates from evidence of (A) Zondo’s corrupt practices when he was Judge President of the Johannesburg Labour and Labour Appeal Court and (B) his reportedly R1,2 Million irregular expenditure that amounted to either unjustifiable personal expenses, or plain theft. Upon (however limited) public exposure Judge President Dunston Mlambo of the Gauteng Higher Courts undertook to sort out the mess, took control of those Courts and Zondo was (quietly) transferred to the JHB High Court as a Judge and later (equally quietly) transferred to the Constitutional Court as a Judge.
Meanwhile, President Zuma forgave Zondo J that R1,2 Million debt, and subsequently appointed Zondo J as Deputy Chief Justice. Justifiably, the fear of many that, following the unexpected deterioration of the relationship between President Zuma and Chief Justice Mogoeng, President Zuma appointed Raymond Zondo as the Deputy Chief Justice, which position amounts to “Operational Head of the Concourt”. Hence the fear that President Zuma’s appointment of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo amounts to “Justice Capture”.
Meanwhile, both Mogoeng Mogoeng CJ and DOJ Minister Michael Masutha appear to:-
• Either, be doing their utmost to sweep the shady machinations of Raymond Zondo DCJ under the proverbial rug;
• Or, simply to keep ignoring corruption claims – As in total disregard of the 2nd part of S. 165 (2) of OUR Constitution!
Besides the above it should be noted that, at least for a number of years, it was public knowledge that irregular expenditure of the Judiciary was the highest of all Organs of State, with Correctional Services in second place – Evidently, there are quite a number of horribly conflicted officials in the “Judicial Complex”, as well as innocent people in jail!
On a personal note I wish to state that I would welcome to be challenged by the Presidency, Concourt and/or the Ministry of Justice on the above allegations.

Conclusion:-
Decolonialisation has simply amounted to the transfer of skewed colonial corporatized power into new hands, almost invariably vested on shared benefits between the new political elite and the old elite.
• Equally invariably, where Presidents compromise a handful of cadres, or even the other way around with the president as a prisoner of his own making.
• Then consider the natural tendency for the Political Elite and hired-hand and short-horizon MNC- and Corporate-bosses to opt for “Financial Growth”-, instead of badly needed “Development Growth”-objectives” – With a love for off-shore transactions!
Predictably such environments hardly ever yield economic potential stimulating productive investments that contribute towards sustainable economic growth. Simultaneously, judging from the movements in the GINI coefficient throughout (South) Africa there appears no credible evidence of any correlation between economic growth and social progress – Whilst a growing middle class, which is the most important ingredient for economic growth, cannot be based on anywhere between $1 and $3 per day, as per the hype of countless so-called Developmentalists, Academics and African Leaderships, being the foundation for sustainable economic growth.
Outcome: ”Secrecy, State Capture and Corruption led by so-called “Democratic Centralist Decision-Making” that turns on “Dispossession and Accumulation”-practice.

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Although this People Capital proposal was not expressly conceptualised to counter the above scenarios, to reiterate, what should be evident from our documentation is that from the very outset we never discounted the possibility of what is currently in play.
Wherefore, before anything else, don’t we have to adopt a mindset that is led by “Radical Objectivism” to make sense of life in this uncertain world?! In this one ought to simultaneously realise that expectations are invariably subjective, plus that the overriding economic situation is constantly fluid and hence demands being adaptable in an open-ended way.
Question: Is this not where “Imagination” has its determinant role to play?!

Unfortunately there are no “How to ……………… in 10 easy steps”- or “Copy-Cat”-solutions to (South) Africa’s deep-rooted problems that not only restore the trust and confidence in our own and our Continental leaderships, but also the ongoing erosion thereof beyond Africa’s borders. It is about history, resilience, problems, underlying causes and seeing how interconnected everything really is, together with their unpredictable multiplier effects. That is where systems and processes, instead of opaque “turf protection”, weigh heavy – To survive, if not prosper, (South) Africa has to advance well-founded and credible proposals to the Developed West, instead of the usual Africa-typical other way around that tend to trigger destructive and zero sum “Blame Games”.

Please note that our 58.500 manhour research and documentation project, excluding our labour intensive manufacturing pilots and proximity tests, is complete, paid for and ready for the implementation phase as set out in the Petition – We are not begging for sympathy money or grants of any kind, but ……….. ACTION.

I hope that the foregoing and attachments not only strike a chord, but also gains your support and influence at relevant quarters.

Kind regards

John Wallis

Should you wish to receive the following explanatory documents:-
• Synopsis-PCP.docx
• Petition-PO-GOV-ZA-3-10-16.docx
• Extract Book-1-p.16.docx
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PS: As a proactive and concerned Dutch immigrant of long standing, specialised in industrial and infrastructural Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) and Organisational Development (OD), proverbially with one foot firmly planted in (South) Africa and the other in the EU, I am heavily invested in this home-grown attempt to remedy Africa’s growing economic and inequality woes, with the assurance that I am neither prepared to pay lipservice to any Government or Corporate entity, nor led by vested commercial interest scenarios. I am certainly not the only person who is convinced that this People Capital project is “saleable” in Brussels (in a Co-Consensus Agreement), the G7, Donor Nations and UNESCO’s UNU for its economic benefits on all sides of the equation – JW

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