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Paddy Hartdegen has been working as a journalist and writer for the past 40 years since his first article was published in the Sunday Tribune when he was just 16-years-old. He has written 12 books, edited a plethora of business-to-business publications and written for most of the major newspapers in South Africa.
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Everyone at Eskom should be switching to gas

[Paddy Hartdegen] I would hope that everyone at Eskom - not only its chief executive, Brian Dames - would be using gas rather than electricity to make something tasty for supper. We wouldn't want our chief executives, or anyone else at Eskom, going hungry at night when they have to keep the power feeding into the homes of millions of South Africans.

Posted 9 days ago | Like
Forget BEE: our real wealth is in knowledge capital

[Paddy Hartdegen] I never know whether it's safe to trust opinions or commentaries from unions in South Africa because I always suspect that there is probably a hidden agenda somewhere.

Posted 2 months ago | Like
What did Amplats workers expect after striking?

[Paddy Hartdegen] There is something completely absurd about the knee-jerk reaction that followed Anglo American Platinum's announcement that it planned to cut 14,000 jobs, put three mines onto a care and maintenance programme and close a fourth mine. The outburst from the workers, the unions and even the Minister of Mines, Susan Shabangu defies all our sensibilities.

Posted 3 months ago | Like
SAIRR calls for BEE to be scrapped

[Paddy Hartdegen] I may have been saying this for years but now another much more august body agrees that black economic empowerment initiatives should be scrapped and South Africa should entrust its development, growth and social change to the people who are best trained to implement them - whether they are black, Indian, coloured or white.

Posted 3 months ago | Like
Gross unfairness for South Africa's mining companies

[Paddy Hartdegen] The more I read about the horrors of the Lonmin sagas at Marikana the more angry I get because of the enormous injustices that have occurred in those mining village over the years.

Posted 8 months ago | Like
Lonmin: Crossed the bounds of negotiation into anarchy and war

[Paddy Hartdegen] Just imagine if I walked into my boss's office at the end of the year, armed with a machete and a shotgun, and demand that he or she triple my salary from R4 000 a month to R12 500 a month. And then get uptight and aggressive because my boss called security, marched me off the premises and refused to have anything to do with me at all until, at least, I had laid down my arms.

Posted 8 months ago | Like
The Durban bridge and other stories

[Paddy Hartdegen] If people wonder why so many ordinary South Africans get so cross about crime - and here I'm not talking about violent crime, just straight theft - then what happened in Durban and Alexandra are excellent cases to consider.

Posted 10 months ago | Like
Gigaba: Please don't tell us how to spend our money

[Paddy Hartdegen] If some person, not a 'friend' or 'someone special', started telling me how to spend my money I'd probably tell them to get stuffed and to use goose down for the stuffing.

Posted 1 year ago | Like (1)
Beware of dismissing a disabled worker

[Paddy Hartdegen] If an employee is unable to work, is it possible for the employer to dismiss him or her? This is a question that sometimes arises in the workplace and Section Six of the Employment Equity Act specifically prohibits an employer from terminating employment on the grounds of a disability.

Posted 1 year ago | Like
SA confidence wanes and PPI rises

[Paddy Hartdegen] Producer price inflation (PPI) has reached double-digit growth for the first time since 2008 according to Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) which says the year-on-year (y/y) growth was 10,5% in September.

Posted 1 year ago | Like
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