Easy Ways To Manage Asthma Effectively This WinterNew Web Hosting Pioneer Emerges, Offering Affordable Hosting Solutions Coupled with…Professor Brian Ganson is Head of the Centre on Conflict & Collaboration at Stellenbosch Business School, a hub for research and reflection on the private sector, conflict, and human security.
We already know that whatever new governments emerge at local, provincial, and national levels due to voting on 29 May, they will face overwhelming challenges delivering the promises of the Constitution to all South Africans. Big business should be planning now for a renewed, more constructive role in bringing stability to the socio-political landscape and ensuring the country’s future.On 30 May, South Africans will wake up to a different political landscape.
This is not only a failure by businesses and government to manage the risks and costs of large-scale investments. It is also a failure of the perhaps naïve notions that emerged under the aegis of the Consultative Business Movement that one could develop an “apolitical economy”, or that within nascent structures across geographies and multiple levels of government, tax revenues from businesses that caused social problems could be dependably collected and deployed to solve them.