Forthright Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman has not changed his mind about SA being a “failed state”, but he has joined business’s new partnership with the government to halt the slide in the economy because it’s in the national interest, and he believes business can make a difference.

Froneman, who co-chairs business’s new crime and corruption workstream with Remgro CEO Jannie Durand, said that though there are pockets of people in the government doing the right thing, the state was “emasculated” and government let the country down badly. And while he welcomes the engagement of senior leaders of state security and law enforcement authorities with the government in the new Joint Initiative against Crime and Corruption (JICC), Froneman says business can still do a lot on its own within law to disrupt criminal syndicates...

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