How to fix South Africa and our broken economy - Frans Rautenbach author of Help Yourself South Africa

As South Africans are increasingly faced with loadshedding, potholes and the deterioration of so many services; the penny has dropped that it is no use waiting for the government to fix it. In his New Year’s message, Gift of the Givers, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman said he believed that fixing the country does not belong to the government, but to all of us. Well, this is exactly what South Africans are doing as they start providing their own electricity, while communities are coming together to fix potholes and clean streets. Frans Rautenbach, a labour lawyer from Cape Town, believes that the process of helping ourselves can be taken a step further. He has written the book, Help Yourself South Africa. Rautenbach told Biznews about his blueprint to fix education, health, housing and other functions of government and suggests that some of the labour laws in the country could be challenged constitutionally. He looks at where regulation was shackling South Africans and suggests a way around them. Rautenbach even has ideas about a new currency and hopes his ideas will be tested in a model 'dorpie'. – Linda van Tilburg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices