Readers’Views

Don’t kill the cash cow behind your dairy company job

News that striking Clover workers marched across the Johannesburg CBD this week and stripped store shelves of products as part of their boycott strategy refers.

When they can see nothing wrong with physically removing stock from shelves, you know the battle is being lost.

I have no problem with the unions or workers asking consumers not to support certain products, but definitely not in the manner in which they are going about it.

They also need to consider that if a customer boycotts or chooses one product over another, it may harm the business supplying the product in the long term.

This would have negative consequences on their own job security.

Think, people, think.

Lance Goodthrust, on BusinessLIVE

Lies, lies & damn inflation

“Consumer prices rose 5.9% in December.” This is not what I’m seeing in Pick n Pay, Checkers, Spar, and so on.

I’m witnessing food and service provision price increases upwards of 12%.

Obviously the statistic is being manipulated by the government in an attempt to lessen union wage demands.

Les Thorpe, on BusinessLIVE

The knee-jerk reaction to raise [interest] rates on higher CPI numbers, without accounting for the fact that almost all of it is supply side and not demand side, is short-sighted and will further damage an already fragile economy.

Thinus Marais, on BusinessLIVE

Cyril’s Fairweather friend

A message for President Cyril Ramaphosa: the hyenas and vultures are circling. You must act. Fast and without delay.

You are reputed to never get into a fight that you are not certain of winning.

Well, this time you will lose the war if you do not engage with your enemies in the battle for control of the ANC.

Please, for the sake of the country, go into battle. Stop prevaricating. I believe you can and will win both the battle and the war.

Tess Fairweather, on BusinessLIVE