OBITUARY: Jabu Mabuza leaves indelible mark on SA’s heart
Jabu Mabuza taught me that if we wait for someone else to fix things, we are doomed to further despair, writes Bonang Mohale
Dr Jabulane Albert Mabuza was my boss. We persuaded him, and he ultimately agreed, to be the single face of big business as the president of both Business Unity SA (Busa) and the CEO Initiative as well as the chair of Business Leadership SA. He, in turn, later personally strongly persuaded me to come out of my early ‘retirement’ at age 55, to be the CEO of BLSA, the organisation that was founded in 1960, even before I was born.
At its inception, BLSA had two primary purposes: to defend apartheid, and sanctions-bursting. The two of us were absolutely convinced that it presented a perfect candidate for transformation, not reformation, and I agreed to take up the cudgel and to eat this monster from within, which started with effect from July 3 2017...
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