National Employers' Association of South Africa

Today Gerhard is sitting down with Professor Johann Holm. Johann is a professor in electronic computer engineering with a specific focus on artificial intelligence. He is also a risk management specialist. We are discussing the risks involved with adopting new products and technologies. Share it with someone.

A conversation with Dr Herman Edeling and advocate Erin Richards about a COVID court case and pharmaceutical monopolies. Many South Africans are asking questions about how the roll-out was handled over the last three years. http://bit.ly/sdsdi006

Real businesses that compete on the basis of high-quality products and competitive prices should not submit to the ANC’s race agenda, they should rather employ candidates based on their qualifications and experience. Discrimination has and always will be wrong and no business should participate in this travesty.

Gerhard Papenfus, uitvoerende hoof van NEASA, gesels met Freek Robinson voorgestelde wetsontwerp op gelyke indiensneming, 6 Junie 2023.

Christel Cornelissen gesels met Connie Mulder, hoof van die Solidariteit Navorsingsinstituut (SNI), en Gerhard Papenfus, uitvoerende hoof van Neasa, op Maroela Media, 6 Junie 2023.

Christel Cornelissen gesels met Connie Mulder, hoof van die Solidariteit Navorsingsinstituut (SNI), en Gerhard Papenfus, uitvoerende hoof van Neasa, op Maroela Media, 6 Junie 2023.

Employment Equity Act amendment: "our biggest concern is bringing the issue of race right back into the debate and it will force employers to make appointments on the basis of the skin colour of a person"

Gerhard Papenfus, Chief Executive of NEASA, on Newzroom Afrika, 27 May 2023 The Minister of Employment and Labour, on 12 May 2023, published the draft Employment Equity regulations for public comment. As contemplated in the recently published Employment Equity Amendment Act (the Act), these regulations set out the numerical employment equity targets for a host of sectors that designated employers (employers employing more than 50 employees) will be required to meet over the next five years. No date has been provided as to when the Act will be enacted, but it is expected to be implemented later in the year.

The recently published regulations, issued in terms of the Employment Equity Amendment Act, set out the numerical employment equity targets (‘quotas’) for a host of sectors that designated employers (employers with 50 or more employees) will be required to meet over the next five years.It is NEASA’s considered view that these “targets” are ill-conceived, unconstitutional and practicably impossible to attain and will be the subject of litigation.

The National Minimum Wage has just been increased with 9.62%. The effect of the increase on the lives and livelihood of employees will, however, not be determined by the size of the increase, but by the ability of employers to absorb the increase. The one factor that the proponents of the notion of the ‘minimum wage’ lose sight of, is the fact that employers, all employers, only pay what they can afford to pay. Any demand beyond that requires of the employer to introduce mitigating factors, i.e., retrenchment, the shortening of working hours and mechanisation. All employers that are vulnerable as a result of this increase, for whatever operational reason, will immediately be compelled to take appropriate action. All employees care for and sustain an extended family. The impact of the promulgated increase of the minimum wage, will increase that burden, and consequently negates the effect of the increase. South Africa’s current unemployment rate stands somewhere between 40% and 50%. Is Government honest about the impact of the national minimum wage on this unemployment disaster? Can a country in which almost half the population is unemployed even remotely afford a minimum wage? Government constantly emphasises South Africa’s poor record in the area of inequality, unemployment and poverty. The minimum wage does nothing to address this dilemma. Since unemployment is the main driver of both inequality and poverty, the minimum wage probably exacerbates this crisis. Economic growth, which is the result of sound economic policies, and good governance, in respect of which Government fails dismally, automatically improve the quality of life of all citizens. Increasing the minimum wage of a few who are employed, does not have that effect. Government, however, is apparently hell-bent on continuing on a path that points downhill. Their latest decision simply accelerates this trajectory. Gerhard Papenfus is the Chief Executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA).

Regulations enabling mandatory vaccination in the workplace were introduced in March this year. NEASA challenged it in the High Court and in June the Minister of Labour admitted that the issuing of the initial regulations was unlawful. He nonetheless proceeded to issue new regulations. In our view this was also unlawful, so we are back in court. We will not rest until all these measures have been scrapped in their totality.

On the 27th of July, 2022, we had four of SA's strongest truth fighters reporting on the current state of affairs in the battle for Health and Human Rights in South Africa. #covid #vaccinesideeffects #freedom The panelists were: Mr Gerhard Papenfus – Chief Executive of NEASA Dr Stephen Schmidt – Physician and Principal Investigator of Drug Trials Prof Johann Holm – Engineer, Mathematician and Academic Risk Management Specialist Dr Herman Edeling – Neurosurgeon, Medicolegal Practitioner and Mediator

The Mandatory Vaccine Dilemma: Support NEASA’s #FREEDOM! campaign – Visit https://campaigns.neasa.co.za/ and support NEASA and its promotion of freedom and social responsibility. #covid #mandates It is time for Covid-19 to be confined to the history books. After Government’s introduction of the Code of Practice: Managing Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in the Workplace in April 2022, NEASA lodged an application in the High Court to set it aside. In June, the Minister of Labour admitted that his actions were unlawful, but within days issued the exact same code, this time under the auspices of NEDLAC. This compelled NEASA to bring a new application in the High Court. We foresee that we will be ready to file this application within a matter of days.

Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi admitted to NEASA that the Code of Practice Managing Covid-19 in the Workplace, was issued unlawfully. NEASA pointed out that he is under constitutional obligation to immediately withdraw this Code. However, yesterday, the Minister issued a new code, this time supposedly crafted by NEDLAC. It is inconceivable that the Minister can still view Covid-19 as a workplace specific risk where no general health risk exists any longer. Gerhard Papenfus is the Chief Executive of the National Employers' Association of South Africa. If you would like to support our campaign against mandates, please click on the link: https://campaigns.neasa.co.za/strengthen-civil-society-freedom/

Gerhard Papenfus, Chief Executive of NEASA, took part in a debate regarding vaccine mandates with representatives from Discovery. In 2021 Discovery implemented mandatory vaccination policies, while NEASA has stood against such mandates from the beginning. The participants was Johan Botes, Head: Employment Practice (Baker McKenzie); Steven Teasedale, Chief People Experience Officer (Discovery); Dr Noluthando Nematserani, Head: Centre For Clinical Excellence (Discovery); Gerhard Papenfus, Chief Executive of The National Employers' Association of South Africa (NEASA). It took place on June 7th, 2022.

Government has finally scrapped all the Covid-19 health regulations, but had no right to subject SA to their draconian measures in the first place. If it was left to them, they would have clung to this power for much longer. Thank you to every organisation and every individual who have made a contribution towards the freedom we have just obtained.

Mandates & "Science" VS Freedom & Evidence. Gerhard Papenfus, CE of NEASA, and representatives from Discovery in debate regarding mandates in the workplace. #vaccines #discovery #mandates See our latest newsletters: The Vaccination drive by Government and special interest groups is failing …and the President is falling behind in terms of his sales targets. https://neasa.co.za/the-vaccination-drive-by-government-and-special-interest-groups-is-failing-and-the-president-is-falling-behind-in-terms-of-his-sales-targets/ Covid-19 and the ‘Great Reset’: Blindly following Government is not the way to go: The wrong decision will have dire consequences https://neasa.co.za/covid-19-and-the-great-reset-blindly-following-government-is-not-the-way-to-go-the-wrong-decision-will-have-dire-consequences/ COVID-19: NEASA Challenges SARS-CoV-2 Code of Practice in the High Court https://neasa.co.za/covid-19-neasa-challenges-sars-cov-2-code-of-practice-in-the-high-court-2/

A friendly reminder of President Ramaphosa’s promise made to South Africans in 2021:

Support NEASA’s #FREEDOM! campaign – Visit https://campaigns.neasa.co.za/ and support NEASA and its promotion of freedom and social responsibility. #covid #vaccines #workplace #humanrights NEASA has launched an application in the Pretoria High Court, challenging the Minister of Employment and Labour’s attempt to justify a vaccination policy under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. While the OHSA regulates workplace safety in respect of risks that originate in the workplace, Covid-19 is not a problem confined to the workplace only and does not originate in the workplace. Therefore, interpreting the OHSA to protect employees against a hazard that does not originate from the workplace, is absurd and could never have been the legislature’s intention. NEASA Challenges SARS-CoV-2 Code of Practice in the High Court https://neasa.co.za/covid-19-neasa-challenges-sars-cov-2-code-of-practice-in-the-high-court-2/

Entrepreneurs are thinkers, have their own ideas and do their own thing. the Great Reset/NWO strategy is to make the individual poor and dependent.

Covid 19: As from today, we will live under disastrous new rules, which, unless successfully challenged, will become a permanent feature of our lives. These rules are all aimed at control and jeopardising our resolve; aimed at the implementation of more freedom eroding measures in the future. NEASA is in the process of preparing an application in the High Court to set these measures aside. We will do everything necessary to give guidance to mitigate the impact of these draconian measures - on both employers and workers.

Business need their employees, the one cannot prosper without the other.

15 reasons WHY NEASA ADVISES AGAINST MANDATORY VACCINATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE: Dear employer The Bill of Rights, as contained in the South African Constitution, protects the fundamental rights of the individual. As the Constitution protects it, the employer should also respect it. With Omicron, it is generally accepted that being vaccinated does not prevent any individual from transmitting or contracting Covid-19. Even the notion that it protects the individual from getting severely sick, is no longer unchallenged. The amended isolation protocols, which no longer require Covid-19 positive, but asymptomatic people to isolate, will make it extremely difficult for any employer to justify excluding any unvaccinated employee from the workplace. The Consolidated Direction on Occupational Health and Safety Measures in Certain Workplaces (‘the direction’) does not provide for the blanket introduction of mandatory vaccinations. More so, the direction is not law, but a guideline. Covid-19 is a public health issue and not a workplace issue. Mandatory vaccination policies do not achieve the goal they set out to meet, and can therefore not be justified. An employer must attempt to reasonably accommodate an employee who does not wish to be vaccinated. Very few employers will be able to prove that they could not reasonably accommodate an employee. The Occupational Health and Safety Act, on which some employers rely, in our view, does not constitute a law of general application, which is required to limit fundamental rights. Adverse effects/vaccine injuries are real but are apparently underreported and employers will be held responsible for this if they have not complied, to the letter, with the direction. The benefits of early treatment, other than the ‘vaccines’, as promoted by government as the only option, are known, but are ignored. The introduction of mandatory vaccinations in the workplace, expose employers to drawn out litigation on a number of grounds. Many countries are lifting restrictions, including vaccine mandates, realising that it no longer holds any benefit. This will result in employers being left to carry the can, while government simply walks away. Gerhard Papenfus is the Chief Executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA).

Quite unceremoniously, South Africans have been informed that the National State of Disaster has, once again, been extended until 15 April 2022. That is after the President’s indication that the current arrangement, which would have ended today at 24:00, would have been the last. The irony is that there is no ‘state of disaster’. For average South Africans, those who do not suffer from irrational fear, nor benefit from the current Covid-narrative, the virus is at the bottom of the list of things to be concerned about. But Minister Dlamini Zuma is a powerful lady, and she has a point to prove. So, for the time being, we are stuck with the ‘state of disaster’. Dropping the extraordinary powers bestowed on the National Coronavirus Command Council by the Disaster Management Act, simply proved a bridge too far. We know that they want an alternative in place before they relinquish their current position of power, and to replace the ‘state of disaster’ with something which at least appears sensible. Apparently, this is a time-consuming exercise, especially when the bureaucrats working on these finer details are not that eager to bring to an end the mechanism that gave them a sense of importance over the last two years. Perhaps the whole spectacle is extended in the hope of the arrival of the ‘fifth wave’. In the meantime, country after country is dropping Covid measures, possibly as a result of the realisation that the measures, introduced over the last two years, constituted severe breaches of constitutional rights and freedoms. Perhaps they are realising that the writing is on the wall, that the cat is slowly being let out of the bag and that the whole scandal is about to be exposed. Nobody wants to get caught red-handed, having been in the wrong all along. In our case, Government falls in none of these categories. They are merely plotting something – most likely something sinister. Gerhard Papenfus is the Chief Executive of the National Employers’ Association of South Africa (NEASA).