LETTER: Tiger, tiger burning shame
Tiger Brands is a perfect example of corporate bulldust
13 February 2020 - 05:00
When I was a small boy, I used to pour drinks for my father’s colleagues — oil company executives — when they visited Mozambique to see how things were running. I was fortunate enough to spend a lot of time in their company, listening to how things were done in big business. I saw what qualities were part of being senior management. By and large, ethical behaviour and honesty were sacrosanct.
Nowadays, it seems to be a case of "spin any yarn you can think of and see if the politically correct audience will suck it in" — or whether a pesky journalist smells a rat...
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