JOHN DLUDLU: Business more trusted than the ANC to get SA back on track
Almost 30 years after the end of formal apartheid, the country is at an inflection point
06 December 2023 - 05:00
In the 1980s a group of white business people travelled to Lusaka, the home in exile of the ANC, to meet their fellow South Africans to discuss the future of their country. In some circles this was looked at askance, as business dabbling in politics.
Back then, two things were as clear as mud: first, apartheid was becoming unviable both as an ideology and business; and second, even though the apartheid regime was militarily stronger than the ANC at any time, it could no longer continue shooting unarmed blacks protesting in the townships. ..
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