It may well be self-evident, but in these times it’s easy to forget that business can, and mostly is, a force for good in society. 

It can sometimes be hard to appreciate, with business pages like ours almost every day filled with stories of corporate greed and potential criminality, from Steinhoff to Tongaat Hulett. These are two of the worst examples where actions by those entrusted with shareholders’ money have fallen well short, bringing into question the credibility of SA capitalism as a whole...

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