The Sunday Times Top 100 Companies Awards will be an opportunity to celebrate and acknowledge exceptional achievements by business leaders and their organisations.The Covid-19 pandemic that spread throughout the world nearly two years ago, and temporarily closed down the South African economy at the end of March 2020, has seen our lives change in previously unimaginable ways.
We’ve started to enjoy sporting events where the familiar sound of stadium crowds are overlaid in the live broadcasts. We’ve witnessed a delayed Olympic Games where the world’s top athletes performed without spectators. For all the adapting we’ve had to do, the spectre of government corruption still hangs thickly in the air, tainting the fight for economic recovery and equitable transformation — scaring off potential foreign investors. Sadly, this is not new.