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JAMIE CARR: Man the barricades
Magda Wierzycka has clearly had it up to the gills with all the rubbish and is fighting back
Sygnia manning the barricadesWhile most of corporate SA has greeted the questionable antics of our political overlords with the “lie low and say nuthin’” approach endorsed by Brer Rabbit, Sygnia’s Magda Wierzycka appears to be taking her inspiration more from Henry V. She’s given up on modest stillness and humility, started to “imitate the action of the tiger”, and clearly has no fear to “disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage”. In simpler terms, she’s clearly had it up to the gills and is fighting back. In its results announcement, Sygnia acknowledges that this is an unusual approach for a corporate, but in a paragraph on its activism strategy it explains why it thinks that, unless corporate SA stands up and flexes its muscle, we will head down an economic abyss that will make all South Africans progressively poorer.The company believes that the parlous state of the country’s economy is entirely caused by the unstable political environment, and that a stance has to be taken o...
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