MAVERICK CITIZEN: OP-ED: Young activists’ challenge to Business Economic Indaba may have gone unheard

It is arguable that the acute nature of South Africa’s economic crisis is in no small part a consequence of the lack of imagination of its business community, their preference to sit on their hands , waiting for government to create the ideal safe economic environment ; and their ingrained Pavlovian habits, which predetermine what is possible and what is not., convened by Business Unity South Africa , would in many ways support that argument.

But methinks they did protest too much because despite this, in too many ways it felt like more of the same. In addition, the same cushy conference centre, recycling big corporate money within the big corporate sector in a venue insulated from the struggles of the real economy. A step back from 18 months ago when Business Leadership South Africa held its, conference in Alexandra.

Internationally, despite rumblings of recession, we are on the cusp of a new, global economic era with opportunities breaking out left, right and centre, if only we would seize some of them.

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