Mark Lamberti, group CEO of logistics and motor vehicle giant Imperial Holdings and a director of Business Leadership South Africa, (BLSA) says the country is facing disaster but the right leadership could turn it around "quite quickly". He says: "I think that developments in the next 18 months are going to be definitive for South Africa. We're facing binary situations here. There is no grey. Either do the right thing and turn South Africa around, or we're in for a terrible time." This is the message communicated by business to government and the ANC in the most "candid and forthright" conversations he has ever heard between them before, he says. "I have never heard conversations as candid and as forthright as have taken place in the past four weeks at the highest levels of government and of the ruling party. The message is unequivocal, and has been received and understood." There is a general recognition by business, labour and government "that we're facing a crisis and that, unles...
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