BRUCE WHITFIELD: Raymond Ackerman turns 90 and looks to the future
In an open letter to South Africans he says he has hope for the country, and that to be successful in retail, a company must care about the community
15 March 2021 - 06:00
When the Greatermans Group fired 36-year-old Raymond Ackerman as MD of Checkers in 1966 with just two weeks of severance pay, he considered emigrating.
The local economy was booming, and grew at an average of 6.9% a year during that decade, but the apartheid state was consolidating its power and the future looked bleak. ..
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