April 2011 - Centre for Civil Society - University of KwaZulu-Natal
April 2011 - Centre for Civil Society - University of KwaZulu-Natal
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noma ayisihlanu; sibe ngochwepheshe kwezesayensi, ezombusazwe,<br />
ezomnotho kanye neminye imikhakha.” Futhi ibhungu elinguMohammed<br />
lathi, ‘Ngiyazigqaja ngokokuqala empilweni ukuthi ngiyiEgyptian. Abanye<br />
bethu babulawa, kodwa saphendula ukwehlulwa sakwenza impimelelo,<br />
sikhokhela inani lenkululeko ngegazi lamaqhawe ethu. Akukho mandla<br />
asiphindisela emuva. Ngeke.”<br />
Ngakho-ke baqhubeka bakha idolobha lasensimini ukuze kube khona<br />
izidingongqangi; benza izibhedlela zezikhashana, lapho kulala khona<br />
abalimele benakekelwa ngodokotela nabahlengikazi abavolontiyayo<br />
abaqhamuka ezihlwelweni zabantu abansha, abakha idolobha ensimini<br />
lapho abantu benikela ngezingubo zokulala nangemithi, izindwangu, ukudla<br />
namanzi.<br />
Lokhu ungathi iphupho.<br />
Ngihlala labantu abasha besifazane nabesilisa ubusuku nemini, ngibabuke<br />
ngenkathi behlanganisa amakomidi okucaza umsebenzi wokuhlanza insimu<br />
zonke izinsuku kuze kube ukuthutha balimele esibhedlela, kube<br />
ukusabalalisa ukudla nemithi, ukuvikela insimu noluphikisana namanga<br />
akhulunywa umbuso nabezindaba, kuze kufike ekukhethweni kwamagama<br />
abazophatha uHulumeni weSikhashana.<br />
Sibanye. Wonke umuntu ufuna uMubarak namadoda akhe eqenjini lakhe<br />
kakuhulumeni bahambe, sifuna kuphele ukuchitheka kwegazi njengoba<br />
kusanda kwenzeka, kuphele inkohlakalo, ukubuswa ngendlovuyangena,<br />
neminyaka engaphezu kwamashumi amathathu kahulumeni okunobudlova,<br />
sifuna ithuba lokukhuluma ngezidingo zethu futhi zaziwe umhlaba wonke.<br />
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism<br />
The following is an excerpt from 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About<br />
Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang.<br />
Ha-Joon Chang 10 February <strong>2011</strong><br />
Thing 1: There is no such thing as a free market<br />
What they tell you<br />
Markets need to be free. When the government interferes to dictate what<br />
market participants can or cannot do, resources cannot flow to their most<br />
efficient use. If people cannot do the things that they find most pr<strong>of</strong>itable,<br />
they lose the incentive to invest and innovate. Thus, if the government<br />
puts a cap on house rents, landlords lose the incentive to maintain their<br />
properties or build new ones. Or, if the government restricts the kinds <strong>of</strong><br />
financial products that can be sold, two contracting parties that may both<br />
have benefited from innovative transactions that fulfill their idiosyncratic<br />
needs cannot reap the potential gains <strong>of</strong> free contract. People must be left<br />
"free to choose," as the title <strong>of</strong> free-market visionary Milton Friedman’s<br />
famous book goes.<br />
What they don’t tell you<br />
The free market doesn’t exist. Every market has some rules and<br />
boundaries that restrict freedom <strong>of</strong> choice. A market looks free only<br />
because we so unconditionally accept its underlying restrictions that we<br />
fail to see them. How "free" a market is cannot be objectively defined. It is<br />
a political definition. The usual claim by free-market economists that they<br />
are trying to defend the market from politically motivated interference by<br />
the government is false. Government is always involved and those free-
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