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Piet le Roux: Fight harmful State schemes with "maximum appropriate non-cooperation"...

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Use "State proofing or maximum appropriate non-cooperation where the State seeks to co-opt ... any non-State actor." That is the advice from Sakeliga CEO Piet le Roux following the latest milestone victory in its fight against the implementation of the NHI Act. "Where the State seeks to co-opt you into an ideological scheme that is clearly harmful, clearly unacceptable, offer the least possible cooperation you can, but do this judicially, do it judiciously, of course," he urges. "There are sometimes risks in not cooperating with the State, but wherever unethical demands that are harmful to society, that are unlawful, that are unconstitutional, are made, I think it's also an ethical duty on people to offer the least possible cooperation." Le Roux describes how useful public interest litigation by Sakeliga and other parties has been. "On all of those cases where we've also achieved good court victories, we have decreased the harms that would have been affected on businesses and on society and on communities, local and nationally."
2 Mar 8AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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