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Indeed. Being forced to fight barehanded because the weapon industry wants to make ZAR (gross assumption?) during the war is unacceptable.

I have Already spent all of my ZAR on buying expensive Q1 weapons--my daily salary is not enough to cover those expenses.

You also must realize that South Africa is transitioning from a peaceful Diamond driven economy to a war economy...

I agree with warlord

Naturally we will have more gift companies than weapons, which is normal for a diamonds based country.

But I agree, we need to open those companies and divert some labour to weapons...like I have said in my other article a few days ago.

If we dont see labour going that way, mayby we can get some gifts-for-weapons deals happening?

Well pointed out Warlord - I wish the government could step in and help instead, they back increasing Tax proposals on raw materials that we don’t even have! Like wood next they want to do Iron so they intend to destroy the eSA business man locally in favour of some other means of getting weapons to our soldiers. Maybe those companies oversea's are owned by the people in power and they get nice Government contracts to build weapons...? Maybe...? Also people in power like the person that raised the import tax on wood have interests in the gift and diamond sector. They invest in the “easy” side of the eSA economy and ensure its success they don’t support the difficult side and ultimately the most import side. It would be to much effort for them – so what do they do with the people that do succeed – well they try make it impossible for them to be successful, they do it slowly so the “sheep”don’t see it.

I have a 50% share in Armscor and find recent talk of proposals to increase import tax on iron very disturbing, actually insane, you want to increase the import taxes on raw material we don’t have – are ^@%# in your head plus we have a war…. Where will the normal people get weapons once the local manufactures cant supply – wait import no that’s not good we need to make things here locally and government should step in and help!

Why don’t we help local people build their business in the weapons industry the fact of the matter is we don’t have great economic brains down here.

If we have cheap weapons for our general population we’d also do better in combat the vast majority of damage done in a fight is done by the masses not the army, so if all our citizens have access to cheap weapons we’d do much better.

No one is increasing the Iron Tax...talks on that were basically "hey should we increase tax on iron?" "no, what are you stupid?"

and besides...just send an org to the country with cheapest products and buy them and donate them there...thats what I do with my weapons company

@ Gabriel, yes having an org to do that works quite well, i do that myself, however u seem to be missing the point made in the article. The writer was stating that the manufacturing of weapons need to be prioritised.

And the congress did increase tax on wood, a resource that we dont have - so how exactly does that work??

What benefit did that have for eSA?

I wasn't defending the wood tax increase and I wasn't commenting about the article...I was commenting on Black8's comment...so, no I am not missing the point...

you can see my small comment on the article's substance above, which reads "You also must realize that South Africa is transitioning from a peaceful Diamond driven economy to a war economy..." We've been at war only a few days, and I'm sure most of the gift companies won't give up workers no matter how much the government pleads, not that I'm saying we shouldn't try...

On the increase on wood tax, I personally didn't see a need for it, however, I agreed with it because Hireshmont provided a clear concise and well thought out argument for increasing it...I saw NOTHING against it before the tax was proposed. Besides I wasn't in congress at the time of it's proposal, I was off starting a RW, so don't crab at me about it.

I also agree weapons should begin to be produced more...hence why I've been pushing people to join my weapons company, that provides super cheap weapons to the masses

Seriously, Black8Shadow, I don't know how you reconcile your claim that a tax on iron will (apparently disastrously) impact on the financial sustainability of Armscor, and your claim to want eSouth Africans to have access to cheap weapons and that the tax would prevent that, with the pricing policy of Armscor, which is consistently significantly higher than other producers. Obviously, its your and your partners' prerogative to follow whatever pricing policy you choose, but to pretend that a tax on iron (and we all know we're not talking about anything more than, say, a 5 percent tax) will have a material impact on profitability is nothing but disingenuous.

And while I am here, we're still looking for workers at Persean Arms. All workers are eligible to purchase weapons at below market prices. For more info, feel free to contact myself or Uvemvane Holdings (which owns Persean Arms).

Seriously, Ovidiusza I am seriously concerned about such taxes.

And Seriously before we entered the market Q1's were around 25 ZAR, its now down to 17 sometimes we sell at 16 however our current price is 19.99 🙂 we make a quality Q1 product, we only buy the fines iron available also you have to pay a little extra for the name 😉

You see its like the better type Q1, we also test them on Indo's at the factory if they don’t kill with a double tap we destroy and recycle! So rest assured our Q1's are tested prior to leaving the factory on Indo's and all this cost a little extra I mean we have to keep them alive until we test and we want them to be on top form whilst the tests are being conducted. Also our clients enjoy the finer things in life they like the engravings we add in gold like our own IST standards (Indo Scum Test) badge.

All this make for a more expensive product, but a better type of Q1 gun!