Unless business reads the riot act to the state, this new partnership will sink into the sand like all the Covid and other grand “partnerships” did before it, writes Bruceps
Senior South African business leaders met with President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday to hammer out a deal to fix the country’s pressing problems: energy, transport and crime among them. Some of the country’s most respected CEOs — Andrew Kirby at Toyota, Jannie Durand at Remgro, Fleetwood Grobler at Sasol, Nolitha Fakude at Anglo American and Neal Froneman at Sibanye-Stillwater have been roped in to lead “workstreams” on the problem areas. One’s heart sinks. Surely not again...
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