Since the declaration of a Welfare State by the Zuma-government, a few interesting statements were made. One statement was recently reported from the SA Public Works Minister: Geoff Doidge as follows:

"The transformation programme will seek to invigorate our sectors to become competitive, raise productivity and increase inclusion and participation across the spectrum of our society."

His statement referred to the Construction (as well as) the Property Sectors where he clearly indicated a desired increase in productivity, as well as competitiveness with associated social benefits.

This statement is the latest effect of the Zuma change proposed by the ANC driven government, a change they call the Welfare State. In the Welfare State 16.5 million citizens are “paid” monthly as opposed to the meager 6 million in Industry. In addition to the Welfare State, the Government also implemented substantial increases in the minimum salary scales directly as well as indirectly, through a rolling Labour strike regime.

This African style of government currently dumbfounds analysts because a welfare state in Africa is unsustainable and increased minimum salaries are counter productive in a jobless country.

Such managerial action therefore begs explanation:

The background to above scenario is based on the term "equality" which must be functionally achieved at all costs. In stead of defining and solving equality however, the term is now politicized into the Transformation Policy of which Welfare and Minimum salaries are subsets amongst other arguments such as “inclusive economy” etc.

The strategic (fall-back) motivation is that Transformation will improve competitiveness and because of that, welfare and increased minimum salaries will also improve competitiveness. This argument is based on intellectual and academic support from the local Productivity Institute that has been promoting the idea (to Government) that productivity improvements equal Competitiveness improvements. Since "people" are more productive (if they have money), it would follow that Government would also be. In addition, if people have money, equality will be improved and transformation will be a huge success.

This is truly a huge improvement in ANC policy development. A world first, to be recorded in history with other achievements such as Mandela equals Moses and the Cradle of Humankind.

South Africans are of course enamored with this because it will improve on the previous drop on the World Competitiveness Index. Why, once people have their own money, it will also improve the country’s standing on the Corruption Index, not to mention income inequality and crime improvements.

The truth of the matter is that the intellectual motivation (for all this) as developed by the SA Productivity Institute, is that productivity will improve because “value will be added”. This postulate also motivates (apart from welfare and salary increases) the drive to an inclusive economy to allow regional integration for facilitating all this future value.

Finally we will see a transformed South Africa and on the same model, an invigorated illuminated Africa.

From a strategic safety perspective, this even means that the SA Construction Industry, currently the most competitive in the world, will be able to spend less on safety.

Truly remarkable.