No, we don't need so much foreign investment. We must fight for shorter work weeks, so that the bosses must employ more people to do the job. We must build trade unions for the unemployed, so that they won't scab during strikes, but rather help us in achieving our demands. This happened in Northern Europe in the 1930s and was an enormous success for workers. This will keep wages low and make us work harder, which will increase unemployment and push prices up.
Gear is a bosses program.
We must fight GEAR if we want better lives. But if we want to fight Gear, we must understand it. Gear is not limited to South Africa. Big antiworker organisations like the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund support Gear-like programs and give loans to governments who implement these programs against workers. The IMF and similar organisations won't allow it to.