SHARON CONSTANCON: Business should step up its ethics to prevent graft

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SA Chamber UK and the faculty of ethics at the Gordon Institute of Business Science will discuss new benchmarks for accountability at an event

As a South African in the UK I constantly support my country through business, charity and supporting bilateral trade and investment.

Yet I am regularly disappointed when learning of assassinations, sabotage, cronyism, corruption and crime, which hurts to the core and places doubt over efforts to make a difference. Should I turn to easier pursuits to gain personal self-worth?Through my daily engagement in the country, and in UK business and the city, it is painfully obvious how low SA has fallen in terms of international investor confidence.

As stated last week by Peter Attard Montalto of Intellidex, a director of SA Chamber UK, the country is “peering over the cliff edge”.

 

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