Business Unity South Africa (BUSA)

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Bulk Water Infrastructure Investment Programme

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Catchment Management Agency Establishment

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Johannesburg Water and Municipal Water Utility Reform

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Municipal Water Loss Reduction (Non-Revenue Water)

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Sanitation Infrastructure and Bucket Eradication

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Water Board Governance and Financial Sustainability

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Water Services Amendment Bill Implementation

Industrial water supply reliability affects manufacturing and mining operations — re: Water Use Licensing and Allocation Reform

Supports transition framework but needs regulatory certainty for green investment — re: Carbon Tax Rate Escalation and Revenue Recycling

Supports transition framework but needs regulatory certainty for green investment — re: Climate Change Adaptation Infrastructure

Supports transition framework but needs regulatory certainty for green investment — re: Forestry Sector Revitalisation and Timber Value Chain

Supports transition framework but needs regulatory certainty for green investment — re: Green Hydrogen and Critical Minerals Regulatory Framework

Supports transition framework but needs regulatory certainty for green investment — re: Just Energy Transition Implementation Plan (JET-IP)

Supports transition framework but needs regulatory certainty for green investment — re: Marine Fisheries Reform and Small-Scale Fisher Rights

Supports transition framework but needs regulatory certainty for green investment — re: SANParks and Protected Area Expansion

The ERAA creates the competitive market and regulatory certainty BUSA's brief treats as preconditions for private investment; the idea projects 15–25% lower industrial electricity costs, directly serving its recorded energy-security interest.

Energy security heads BUSA's recorded interests; the scheme removed embedded-generation licensing barriers and drew R30.78 billion in private generation investment (idea text) — the energy-reform implementation delivery the brief consistently demands.

BUSA supports Eskom unbundling as necessary for competitive energy markets and private sector participation.

BUSA supports the IRP 2024 update for regulatory certainty on the generation mix underpinning energy investment decisions.

Grid expansion is essential for BUSA members investing in self-generation who need reliable transmission access.

Both reviewers concur: the brief records no anti-nuclear position; its cost-certainty and regulatory-certainty interests plus the idea's R100-200bn guarantee and unproven SMRs support conditions, not opposition.

Logistics efficiency is a core recorded BUSA interest; third-party access has put 11 private operators on the freight network (idea text), the structural break in rail logistics costs its co-investment agenda requires.

Port productivity improvement is critical for BUSA members dependent on competitive export logistics.

BUSA advocates for Transnet private sector participation to restore logistics competitiveness.

BUSA supports the Transport Economic Regulator to ensure transparent, cost-reflective pricing for freight and port services.

BUSA supports fuel price deregulation as it removes inefficient administered pricing and enables market competition.

BUSA strongly supports NERSA independence to ensure predictable, rational energy regulation.

The brief places BUSA inside the LRA's tripartite machinery as organised business's NEDLAC voice; a functioning CCMA — against the 20% commissioner vacancies and 30-plus-day resolution times the idea records — is that machinery's employer-facing core.

Supports labour market reforms that reduce hiring costs and regulatory burden on employers — re: Compensation Fund Turnaround and Claims Backlog

Supports labour market reforms that reduce hiring costs and regulatory burden on employers — re: Employment Tax Incentive (ETI) Extension and Expansion

Supports labour market reforms that reduce hiring costs and regulatory burden on employers — re: Labour Activation Programme for Long-Term Unemployed

Labour-market flexibility is a listed BUSA interest; the review interrogates whether the CPI-plus formula reflects employment absorption and sectoral productivity differentials — the employer-side questions the idea itself records the committee raising.

BUSA's recorded brief is the key NEDLAC interlocutor seeking outcomes that bind government to published timelines; a binding social compact trading investment commitments for reform delivery is precisely that instrument.

Supports labour market reforms that reduce hiring costs and regulatory burden on employers — re: Productivity SA and Workplace Competitiveness Support

The idea records business's complaint that Section 189 is too rigid for firms in genuine financial distress; labour-market flexibility is a listed BUSA interest, grounding support for streamlined retrenchment timelines.

Supports labour market reforms that reduce hiring costs and regulatory burden on employers — re: Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) Governance and Benefit Reform

Extending protections to informal workers raises employer obligations, contradicting the note's cost-reduction rationale; the brief is silent, and the same actor is recorded neutral on informal-economy idea 121 — neutral is better supported.

BUSA supports taxi formalisation as it improves urban mobility for workers and reduces transport costs for businesses.

Regulatory burden is a recorded BUSA concern, including compliance costs for smaller businesses; BizPortal integration attacks the compliance fragmentation the idea documents across 14 agencies, squarely within the brief's regulatory-certainty agenda.

SMME regulatory burden reduction is a top BUSA priority as it directly improves the business environment for members.

BUSA is neutral on informal economy integration, recognising its importance but focused on formal sector reform priorities.

The brief records BUSA's concern with cost burdens on smaller businesses; the Ombud targets government payment delays exceeding 90 days — the SMME liquidity constraint the idea documents — a business-environment repair within its cross-sector reform agenda.

BUSA supports the 30% SMME procurement set-aside in principle but demands implementation that does not compromise procurement efficiency.

BUSA supports energy transition manufacturing skills as industry faces severe shortages in solar, wind, and EV technicians.

BUSA strongly supports SETA reform, citing chronic levy-grant inefficiency that fails to deliver industry-relevant training.

BUSA supports STEM teacher development as STEM skill shortages constrain industry growth across multiple sectors.

BUSA supports TVET quality reform as businesses face severe artisan shortages constraining growth and investment.

BUSA's healthcare members conditionally accept Health Market Inquiry reforms if implementation preserves investment incentives.

The payroll-tax funding model appears in neither brief nor idea text. The idea is a credible costed phased roadmap, matching the brief's accountability and predictability demands — conditional is better supported than opposition.

BUSA supports APDP Phase 2 as automotive is SA's largest manufacturing export sector with 110,000+ direct jobs.

BUSA supports the managed EV transition to preserve SA's automotive manufacturing export base.

BUSA supports beneficiation if commercially viable and supported by energy and logistics reform, not imposed through export levies.

BUSA supports AfCFTA implementation as it opens a $3 trillion continental market for SA businesses.

AGOA retention is critical for BUSA members in automotive, textiles, and agricultural exports.

BUSA's recorded brief — energy, logistics, regulatory certainty, labour flexibility, digital infrastructure — takes no position on trade remedies; poultry anti-dumping sits outside that documented agenda, and neither record supplies an organised-business position either way.

BUSA supports SEZ reform but demands streamlined regulatory approval and functioning infrastructure before new designations.

BUSA conditionally supports R-CTFL if the master plan includes realistic competitiveness targets alongside protection measures.

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Anti-Extortion and Construction Mafia Task Force

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Community Policing Forum Revitalisation

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Court Case Backlog and Judicial Efficiency

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Cybercrime and Digital Evidence Legislation

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response Strategy

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Illegal Mining and Resource Crime Combatting

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: IPID Independence and Police Accountability

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Legal Aid South Africa Capacity and Access to Justice

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: Private Security Industry Regulation (PSIRA) Reform

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: SANDF Deployment in Support of SAPS Border Security

Business crime, extortion, and logistics theft are top concerns for private sector investment — re: SAPS Detective Service Capacity and Case Clearance

BUSA supports fiscal consolidation as it reduces borrowing costs and improves the sovereign credit rating for business investment.

BUSA supports localisation in principle but opposes prescriptive designation policies that raise procurement costs without building domestic capacity.

BUSA supports SOE governance reform as necessary for credible concessioning and private sector participation.

BUSA conditionally supports carbon tax Phase 2 if the tax rate trajectory is predictable and revenue supports green industrial transition.

BUSA supported the FATF exit as essential for financial system credibility and correspondent banking relationships.