I was inspired to write this poem given the current happenings in our local mining industry. Keep up the good work.

Much has been made of the reconfigured Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) downscaling plan.

The article, “Road tolling will provide benefits for the economy” (Business Report, May 10), refers. It is funny how you can say this will benefit the economy. Which economy are you talking about.

Your always readable labour columnist Terry Bell is usually accurate and reliable in his contributions.

Despite having minor interest in matters of money (only in so much as how far mine can go) and the boardroom battles of business, I find myself daily drawn to the pages of Business Report.

While Business Unity SA (Busa) welcomes the positive intention of the Department of Trade and Industry, to promote an environment conducive to business expansion and its purpose of ensuring compliance, Busa’s assessment of the draft Licensing of Business Bill 2013 is that it is yet another piece of legislation that overwhelms small businesses with its compliance and regulatory framework.

Our leaderless leader, President Jacob Zuma, and health union and ANC leader Fikile Majola and many others, for that matter, who contribute to the “blame” debate, got the linguistics related to meaning, wrong.