Cde Morgan, indeed you are correct South Africa does not exist in vacuum. But with regards to foreign direct investment what u should note is the trend of the FDI that is being recieved by our country [in eloborating there are are two kinds of FDI: 1-there is FDI investment that establishes new entities, thus creating more employment and contributing more or less to poverty alliviation 2-there is FDI that is commonly known as M&A [mergers and acquisitions], which results in mass retrenchment of workers through the introduction of the so-called new technologies and down-sizing of their new aquisitions, thus they increase the burden of social responsibility on our government of which i believe is intentional so that they can continue with the super-explotatation of the working class and poor population of the country. Thus, we should then make sure that that the form of FDI that we sought after is to our advantage. Furthermore on the multi-literal and biliteral agreements my concern becomes that, as these agreements are entered into, particularly with the imperialist countries, we seem to be always engaged on unequal terms. Indeed nationalisation is not part of government policy, bear in mind that 'leaders lead through the will and graciousness the people'. I would suggest that we put more or move our focus on the south african reserve bank, because i want to believe that if we are then to begin to cover these loopholes the reserve bank would be a critical point to start on, looking directly into strenghtening the buying power of our currency. In my personal opinion, it is a fallacy that we be made to believe that a stronger currency is an obstacle to the real growth of our economy, our currency continues to be devalued by this conduct. As for the monetary policy committee, we are mockeying our people if really want to make them believe that this committe is progressive, because i want to believe that if it is really in our interest why is it failling to persue monetary policy review, but i guess it might be because it is also dominated by a majority of imperialist forces who care less about the plight of the people
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