Stateproofing expert wins big in BEE High Court challenge - Sakeliga boss Piet le Roux with context

In this vibrant discussion on a major court victory against South Africa's racist laws that moves into Government over-reach, Lichtenberg's collapse, Cape Independence, Steenhuisen's attack and even Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux shares his insights with BizNews editor Alec Hogg. Joins many dots.

Timestamps
00:00 – Alec Hogg: “What the heck are we doing as citizens?”
01:19 – Why South Africans empower failing leaders
02:26 – Piet le Roux: South Africa’s broken political order
04:24 – Collapse of Lichtenburg municipality
05:31 – “What the heck” moment: failed towns and failed policies
06:29 – Piet on John Steenhuisen’s policy failures
08:03 – The Pretoria High Court BEE case
09:24 – How Sakeliga stopped race-based air licensing
11:44 – Hogg: “That’s flat out racist”
12:19 – Le Roux: BEE as domestic sanctions
13:58 – Scaling up litigation beyond BEE
14:19 – Piet on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged
15:34 – Hogg: Rand’s impact on free enterprise
16:35 – Are South Africans waking up to BEE?
17:22 – Cape independence and decentralisation
19:07 – ANC’s outdated ideology and looming undoing
19:41 – The power of 100 NEC members vs 60 million citizens
20:58 – State-proofing as a national survival strategy
22:28 – “The state cannot balance itself, we must balance it from outside”

Video production by Asime Nyide

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