Sakeliga welcomes and supports two promising initiatives in Ditsobotla
Bringing stability and prosperity back to local economies and communities is crucial to avoiding a cascading destabilisation. Sakeliga considers Ditsobotla a promising case for developing answers that could scale to other municipalities.
Sakeliga commends Tshwane and Cape Town officials for resolute stance against criminal violence
Sakeliga has sent letters of encouragement to the mayors of Cape Town and Tshwane commending them and their cities’ officials for opposing gangsterism and intimidation from groups and organisations intent on using chaos and violence to advance their demands. Managing such threats in large metros with limited resources and coordinating response teams across various levels […]
Public interest litigation: a high-impact tool for responsible business
Rather than to complain about state failure and harmful policy, Sakeliga was established as an outcome-focussed entity with an unambiguous value proposition – impactful litigation to establish a healthy business environment stewarded by an independent and resilient – state-proof – business community. Sakeliga is a premier vehicle for businesspeople and organisations to create scalable solutions to state failure.
Action recap: Sakeliga improves property protection against land invaders
Sakeliga’s urgent intervention upheld crucial legislation against land invasions, enhancing property protections.
Action Recap: Sakeliga’s historic BEE-victory
Sakeliga achieved the first significant setback for harmful BEE policies when we reversed illegal BEE and local content regulations in public procurement, unlocking billions in potential savings.
Sakeliga rejects Sahpra’s BEE conditions for medical products
Sakeliga rejects the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority’s (Sahpra) proposed BEE conditions for the manufacture, import, prescribing and trading of health products and medical equipment. Sahpra’s plan to make BEE a prerequisite in the medical industry is contained in a new draft policy entitled “Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Policy for Issuance of Licences”. The […]
Court finds Sakeliga’s Auditor-General application laudable, but legislative amendments require a longer process
The Gauteng High Court found today that Sakeliga’s attempt to shed light on the dysfunctionality of municipalities is laudable, but due to recent amendments to the law, a longer process must follow. Sakeliga will, therefore, continue its action to obtain the Auditor-General of South Africa’s (the “AG”) detailed management reports on decaying municipalities. We regret […]
Business and civil society must first delay, then prevent NHI
Sakeliga does not and will not accept the proposed national health insurance scheme accepted by the Parliament of South Africa today. Sakeliga considers the Bill on National Health Insurance unimplementable, unworkable, and harmful. It is detrimental to economy, to health, and to society in general. We emphasise that resolute opposition by business and civil society […]
How Ramokgopa can roll back three stages of load-shedding
Sakeliga has sent a report on value-for-money state procurement to the Minister of Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa which, if followed, could reduce the need for load-shedding by up to three stages. This follows after the minister stated in a recent interview, that non-value-adding intermediaries are causing supply chain delays that add, on average, three stages of […]
Co-ordinated opposition will prevail against Employment Equity Amendment Act
Sakeliga welcomes the resolution to oppose the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA), signed today at the invitation of Solidarity by more than thirty organisations. The EEAA will be defeated not only by businesses organically resisting its implementation but importantly also by the co-ordinated and growing opposition of independent organisations in business and civil society and […]