Clem Sunter intrigues businessmen and women
Futurologist and scenario planner Clem Sunter had a number of businessmen and women listening attentively to his presentation at the breakfast fund-raiser for San Michele, a home for intellectually and physically disabled people, on March 4.
The breakfast was held at the Benoni Country Club.
Sunter spoke about a number of factors, such as land grabs, unemployment, entrepreneurship and educational matters that affect South Africa and its citizens.
“Entrepreneurship should be given more emphasis and small to medium business processes should be simplified”, he said.
He added that the government’s goal to create five million jobs by 2020 should be changed to one million new business enterprises by 2020.
“The only way five million jobs can be created by 2020 is if one million new enterprises are started,” he said.
“South Africa is experiencing a lot of social unrest, that it has never seen before.”
Sunter added that the three pre-conditions that were evident during the Arab Spring, a series of anti-government protests that spread across the Middle East in early 2011, are:
– abnormal youth employment
– active social networks
– a growing dissatisfaction amongst the youth
“These conditions can currently be detected in South Africa,” he said, adding that, if the red flags are kept down, South Africa can turn around from this critical point.
