Business is the answer, not the enemy, says Business Leadership SA’s Bonang Mohale
The BLSA CEO emphatically denies there is an investment strike in SA
Business is not on an investment strike and will forge on with or without government’s support, says the CEO of Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), Bonang Mohale. He spoke on Monday at the launch of a report on BLSA members’ corporate footprint at BLSA’s offices in Killarney, Johannesburg. "As a business organisation, when we could be creating jobs, creating SMEs and integrating the broader populace, our motives are being questioned," said Mohale. "We are puncturing the inflated fallacy that business is on an investment strike." BLSA has measured the economic footprint of its member companies with research undertaken by Quantech nad based on 57 of the 77 members of BLSA. Mohale sought to hammer home the point that business was the answer, not the enemy. "When we are confronted with a fiscal cliff as demonstrated by the medium-term budget policy statement, there is no economy in the world that has ever fixed that while being pro-growth and anti-business at the same time. "In spi...
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